Audition and EPK

Biography, repertoire, photographs and recordings, for juries, programmers and press.

Repertoire and recordings are added as they are confirmed. An em dash marks anything not yet supplied.

Biography

Lucas Baret is a guitarist and composer from Réunion Island. He plays and writes between jazz and maloya, the island's ancestral music, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. Lucas grew up playing it alongside jazz.

He trained at the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood and studied with Romain Pilon, Louis Winsberg and Pierre Perchaud, just to cite a few.

He has toured in France, Réunion, the Canary Islands and Indonesia, and shared bills with Jazzmeia Horn and KUTU. He has played large-ensemble dates under Stéphane Guillaume and Igor Zakus, and recorded in the studio with Second Brain and Michael League.

He is applying to European jazz conservatoires.

Lucas Baret in profile on stage, lit against a black ground, the neck of the hollowbody archtop crossing the frame

Repertoire

The set as it will be presented, in order, each piece with its recording.

Repertoire, awaiting titles, timings and links
No. Title Composer Tempo and feel Key Duration Recording
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Rows fill in as the set is confirmed.

Recordings

Three videos in contrasting styles, unedited, with clean sound and the hands, face and instrument in frame.

Video 1, 16:9

First video

No recording linked yet.

Video 2, 16:9

Second video

No recording linked yet.

Video 3, 16:9

Third video

No recording linked yet.

Photographs

Full frame. Each download is the file shown on this page, at the size stated on the link.

Lucas Baret playing the hollowbody archtop, eyes down on the fretboard, under warm light on a dark stage
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Lucas Baret in profile against a black stage, the headstock of the archtop at his shoulder
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Lucas Baret standing at the front of a dark stage, playing the hollowbody archtop
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Lucas Baret playing at Canarias Jazz & Más, a saxophonist beside him and the festival screen behind
Canarias Jazz & Más, 32nd edition. Photo Lazy Afternoon Films. Download 1600 × 1066
Lucas Baret playing a hollowbody archtop guitar under warm stage light, eyes down on the fretboard
Théâtre Luc Donat, Le Tampon, Réunion. Photo Éric Vergnet. Download 2048 × 1365
Lucas Baret seated on a club stage playing the archtop, a drummer beside him under a neon sign
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The room during the set, an audience seated in front of the low club stage
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Lucas Baret playing the archtop in a low-lit club, a drummer behind him
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Contact

For auditions, programming and press. The form reaches Lucas directly.