German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt, musical director of the Paris Chamber Orchestra, died Monday at the age of 51. He died of cancer, his agent announced.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the death of German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt,” the Askonas Holt agency said on Twitter. “Lars passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by his family after battling cancer,” added those managing his career.
He had been musical director of the Paris Chamber Orchestra since July 2020, a position in which he had been confirmed in 2021. It was that year, in May, when he revealed that he was fighting liver cancer.
Winner of several prestigious awards, including the Brahms Prize, Lars Vogt was hired by the Paris City Council when he was Music Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead, Great Britain.
Source: BFM TV
