WORLD PREMIERE IN BELGIUM
Friday 21 November 2025 at 6 pm
French-Swiss composer and pianist Michel Runtz was born in Paris and lives mainly in Switzerland.
He is a former professor and dean of piano classes at the Music Conservatory of Regions (Switzerland).
He is the founding president of the International Piano Competition of Fribourg (Switzerland) and co-founder of the International Sino-Swiss Piano Competition of Shanghai, both competitions dedicated to the repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries, for young pianists.
Michel Runtz composes to communicate emotion when presented not only with a film, a play or a text but also the aesthetic sense of certain painters, the contrast of the material, to the beauty it contains. This response being in echo to other creations, the composer provides a musical language which seeks not to mislead but to rouse the listener toward clarity and simplicity.
His works immerse the listener in a harmonic universe that is situated in a kind of “in-between” that reveals a crossbred music.
