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The Italian pianist, Roberto Cominati, began studying piano at a very early age: he was just 8 when he was admitted to the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples for special merits. In 1991, he won the Alfredo Casella competition in Naples; and in 1993, the 1st Prize at the International Competition Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano in 1993; this last award launched his career and gained him the favour of both critics and major Italian concert promoters alike. In 1999, he was awarded the Jacques Stehman Prize by the audience of RTBF and TV5 France at the Brussels Reine Elisabeth Competition.
Since then, Roberto Cominati has been invited to perform at the most prestigious venues and festivals including the Salzburger Festspiele, festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Festival di Brescia e Bergamo, Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Lingotto in Turin, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Gasteig in Munich, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Staatsoper in Hamburg, Staatsoper in Dresden, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal in Saõ Paulo, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Concert Hall, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. In January of 2015, he gave his debut in the Concertgebouw series “Master Pianists”.
Roberto Cominati has appeared with leading European orchestras as well as in Japan and Australia, under the baton of important conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Andrey Boreyko, Leon Fleisher, Daniel Harding, Eliahu Inbal, Yuri Ahronovitch, Mikhail Pletnev, David Robertson and Alexander Lazarev.
In 2010, Roberto Cominati recorded the complete of works Maurice Ravel for Amadeus. |
