Biography

« She is truly a great new voice for Jazz » : this is what Quincy Jones said about Sarah Lancman when she received the 1st Prize of the International Competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2012. Sarah Lancman is a French vocalist, pianist and songwriter based in Paris. Starting at the tender age of seven, she began classical piano studies at the Conservatoire du Centre in Paris. Many years later, whilst she was completing her Bachelor's degree in composition, jazz piano and singin at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU), she also won First Prize in the International Shure Voice Competition in Montreux (Switzerland) in 2012, chaired that year by Quincy Jones. Sarah has toured in her home country of France and Turkey many times and has performed in other European countries such as Switzerland and Spain. In 2016, she was invited by The Jazz Foundation of America to perform in New York as one of three “Rising Stars” from being a prior Montreux Jazz Festival winner. Sarah also toured in Japan and South Korea in 2018. She was managed by music label Jazz Eleven for five years to 2021 and just created her own company Unlimited Music France in September 2022 for producing her new album. Her sixth album "le pouvoir des mots" ( 11 original songs in french) where she sings and plays piano, accompanied by the prestigious string quintet (the Hanson Quartet, Blanche Stromboni / Lucas Henri) and guests will be released in Spring 2023.