Marcel Cominotto

Marcel Cominotto is a composer and pianist. He regularly gives performances at different festivals like Ars Musica, the International Contemporary Music Festival in Moscow, in Saint Petersburg, at the Stavelot festival, Musica Viva in Lisbon where he plays works from the classic and romantic repertoire together with new works and creations. During his recital, he tends to create programmes where the audience has the opportunity to discover the history of music from the classical period up to the present day.

As a composer, he wrote several pieces for solo instruments, ensembles or chamber orchestras. Some of his works were selected, released and performed in different festivals among which Ars Musica (Brussels), Musica Intima (Liège), Euterpe (Kortrijk), Emergences (Brussels), Musica Viva (Lisbon), Villarte (St-Truiden) to name a few.

At the age of fifteen, he was awarded the highest grade by the Royal School of Music of Liége for his studies in piano. He was also a prizewinner in the field of musical writing (harmony, counterpoint, fugue). Besides, he got several awards among which ‘le Prix de Virtuosité’ (the prize for virtuosity) from the Belgian government with the unanimity and high commendation of the jury. Afterwards, he improved his technique with Nikita Magaloff and Aloyis Kontarsky.

Since 1978, Marcel Cominotto has been teaching the piano at the music school of Chênée and tonal writing at the Royal School of Music in Liège. He is very much involved in the revision of the pedagogy in musical writing and his approach favours the comprehension of the evolution of the material and the semantics in their historical background.