nicolas_comi_pianist

About

 

Nicolas Comi was born in Geneva, Switzerland in March 2005. Totally devoted to classical music felt by heart, he has been playing the piano since the age of five. At the age of seven he performed his first concert and immediately captured the world’s attention as a child prodigy. Since 2017 he has played a number of famous piano concertos in concert halls in Geneva such as Victoria Hall and Palais de l’Athénée, and worked side by side with the world-famous Orchestre de Suisse Romande (OSR) as well as with the conductor Roberto Benzi. As a dedicated composer and a natural improviser, Nicolas also composed musics for silent movies. He graduated from High School in June 2024 in Geneva and is entering his final year of Bachelor’s degree at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.

Competitions

2022
Concours International Samson François (Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR)
Special Mention from the Jury

2021
Steinway Competition (Zürich, CH)
First Prize / Virtuoso Prize

2020
Vienne Classique (Geneva – CH)
First Prize with Jury’s Congratulations

Broadcasting

2019
Humain Passionnément (CH) Link
Broadcasted by Canal 9

2018
Little Dreamers Foundation Gala (Miami Beach, FL, USA) Link

2016
Les coups de coeurs d’Alain Morisod (CH) Link
Broadcasted by RTS1

2015
Superkids (FR) Link
Broadcasted by M6

« Sensitive and dynamic virtuoso,
his interpretations reach the most hardened hearts and soften them by the sheer force of their grace. »

Calendar 2024

 

 

March 16 – Cité Bleu (Geneva, CH)
7 PM

May 3 – Eglise Saint-Julien du Pauvre (Paris, FR)

May 14 – Centre Culturel Bellmund (Bellmund, CH)
4 PM
May 28 – Académie Romande, P’tit Music Holl (Cointrin, CH)
7 PM

June 2 – Cagnes-sur-Mer (Château Grimaldi, FR)

Press

 

 

« Nicolas Comi is a virtuoso musician who explains his gift as a kind of blessing. He offers us the image of a young person with a candid and wise personality »

– Jeanne Dirren, Canal 9

« Diligent, hardworking, passionate, able to nuance his interpretations, gifted for interpretation and composition. »

Thomas Delclaud, Pianist

« The precision that matches a watchmaker from La Chaux-de-Fonds »

Marianne Grosjean, Tribune de Genève

Videos

 

Contact

 

nicolas.comi [at] etu.hesge.ch