EPIFANIO COMIS

Pianist · Conductor · Artistic director

Epifanio Comis

Technique in the service of interpretation.

The portrait See the images

Who he is

Two hands and the podium

At the pianoHe has played at Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Osaka and the Opera House in Dubai.
On the podiumHe has conducted at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.
And thenThen Bucharest, Kyoto, Yerevan. On the podium too, the Central Concert Hall in Kazakhstan.
The portraitHall after hall, the pianist and the conductor, told in full on a page of their own.
  1. ICarnegie HallNew York
  2. IIBerlin PhilharmonieBerlin
  3. IIIKonzerthausVienna
  4. IVSymphony HallOsaka
  5. VSymphony HallKyoto
  6. VIRoman AthenéeBucharest
  7. VIIKachaturian HallYerevan
  8. VIIIOpera HouseDubai
  9. IXCentral Concert HallKazakhstan
  10. XTeatro Massimo BelliniCatania
Colour portrait: in a dark blue jacket and blue shirt, leaning on the lid of a black grand piano against a light grey background

The Conservatory

An orchestra inside a school

FounderHe founded the «Vincenzo Bellini» Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and is its music director.
Six years at the helmFrom 2019 to 2025 he was director of the «Vincenzo Bellini» Conservatory in Catania.
The pageHow an orchestra is born inside a school, and what it leaves behind.
2019—2025at the head of the Conservatory
Three-quarters from behind, he conducts with bare hands under a warm golden light, before a young orchestra of strings and brass in an ornately decorated hall
Full symphony orchestra on a pale wooden stage in a modern terraced hall; the conductor stands with his back to us on the rostrum, timpani and brass at the rear.

Teaching

Technique is not the end

The ideaTechnique serves interpretative rigour and the performer's emotional growth.
The chairFull professor. Honorary Professor at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
His studentsHis students have won nine of the most celebrated international competitions.
The pageHis way of working and the competitions won by his students, one by one.
9competitions won by students
In the rehearsal room he raises a hand to point out a passage to the young pianist at the grand piano, timpani and orchestra behind

Beyond the stage

Choosing and judging

Artistic directionHe is artistic director of the Ljubljana Festival International Piano Competition.
Juries and awardsThe international juries and the awards received are gathered on a page of their own.
  1. ILjubljana Festival International Piano CompetitionLjubljana
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Images

To watch and to hear

The archivePhotographs from the concerts and the rehearsals, and videos of the performances.
Without wordsA single page, almost silent: you watch and you listen.
The same scene from the concerto for piano and orchestra, framed slightly tighter and darker at the edges, with the cellist seen from behind in the foreground.
In black and white, seated in an armchair in a period drawing room with a magazine in his hands, books on the low table in the foreground
The stage seen from the stalls: the man in a blue jacket at the microphone between the grand piano, the pipe organ and the harpsichord, with the heads of the audience in the foreground.