Vincent Lucas is one of the youngest flautists to have been unanimously admitted, at the age of 14, to the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) following its entrance examination. After winning various national prizes (the UFAM and the Léopold Bellan Association), at the age of 17 he won first prize at the “Concertino Praga” international radio competition in Prague. 

After five years with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, he joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where he remained for six years before being appointed principal flute with the Orchestre de Paris in September 1994. During his three decades with the orchestra, he performed as soloist in Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp with Marie-Pierre Chavaroche, conducted by Frans Brüggen in 2001; in concertos by Bright Sheng in 2004 and by Marc-André Dalbavie, in its French premiere in 2010 – both conducted by Christoph Eschenbach –, and Carl Nielsen’s concerto conducted by Paavo Järvi in 2016.

He takes part in numerous chamber music programmes organised by the Orchestre de Paris, and in this field he also collaborates with Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Christian Ivaldi, Éric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Xavier Philipps, Svtelin Roussev and Laurent Wagschal. He is also a member of the Orchestre de Paris Soloists’ Wind Quintet, with whom he has made various recordings and undertaken international tours. 

As an assistant lecturer in Sophie Cherrier’s class at the CNSMDP, he also teaches at the Paris Regional Conservatoire. Furthermore, he gives numerous masterclasses across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, and holds honorary professorships at the Tōhō Gakuen College of Music in Tokyo and the Saint Petersburg Music House. Vincent Lucas has made several recordings for Indésens: albums of French music for flute and piano featuring the composers Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Dutilleux, Enesco, Françaix and Debussy, as well as a recital for solo flute.