ARTIST

ARTIST

Jérôme Comte(Clarinet)

After studying in Geneva and Paris with Thomas Friedli, Pascal Moragues, and Michel Arrignon, Jérôme Comte won prizes at international competitions in Paris, Prague, and Munich, and received scholarships from the Meyer Foundation and the Fondation d’entreprise Banque Populaire. In 2003, he became the first young musician sponsored by the Académie Charles Cros, which later awarded him its 2017 Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of Brahms’s Op. 120 sonatas and Berg’s Vier Stücke with pianist Denis Pascal.
He has since built an international career as a chamber and ensemble musician, performing with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Ensemble intercontemporain, which he joined in 2005 at age twenty-five.

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In 2006 he performed Yan Maresz’s Eclipse under Pierre Boulez at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and in 2009 toured Europe with Boulez in Elliott Carter’s Clarinet Concerto, later recording the work for Alpha Classics with the Ensemble intercontemporain under Matthias Pintscher. In 2010, he was invited to perform Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double at a major Louvre retrospective.
Other milestones include Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto at the New World Center in Miami and Hans Werner Henze’s Le Miracle de la rose at the Philharmonie de Paris, both conducted by Matthias Pintscher. He premiered Jaehyuck Choi’s Nocturne 3 for clarinet and orchestra at the Geneva International Composition Competition, and in 2018 gave the world premiere of Philippe Hurel’s concerto Quelques traces dans l’air in Cottbus, Germany.
In 2023, he premiered new solo works by Philippe Hurel, Yan Robin, Adrien Trybucki, and David Hudry at Salle Cortot with Denis Pascal.
Jérôme Comte teaches at the CNSM in Paris and gives masterclasses worldwide, most recently in Taipei, Tokyo, Mexico City, San Jose, and Porto.
PARTICIPATING PERFORMANCES

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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Recital Hall

Ensemble intercontemporain I

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