BIOGRAPHY

Clara Gatti Comini is an Italian harpist, currently carrying out a doctoral research in harp at the London College of Music, as a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with Distinction at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she studied as a scholar under the guidance of Gabriella Dall’Olio and Frances Kelly. In 2016 she obtained a Harp Diploma at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris, studying with Elisabetta Giorgi. Prior to this, she studied at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona with Maria Lluïsa Ibáñez and Maria Lluïsa Sánchez. She has attended masterclasses with internationally renowned harpists including Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Catherine Michel, Isabelle Moretti, Sylvain Blassel, Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche, Heidi Krutzen, Tara Minton and Park Stickney.

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In 2023 Clara was selected to be a member harpist of the European Union Youth Orchestra, performing in Amsterdam Congertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Grafenegg Wolkenturm, Wiesbaden Kurhaus, Bolzano Teatro Comunale, under the baton of Antonio Pappano (LSO, ROH) and Manfred Honeck and with the soloists Julia Fischer, Martin James Bartlett and Benjamin Grosvenor. Since 2019, she is a member of Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, performing at St. John’s Smith Square and Cadogan Hall.

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Clara is a winner of the UK Harp Association Emerging Artist Scheme 2024, UK Harp Association Creative Fund 2024, World Harp Congress Spectrum 2024, John Marson Harp Prize for Outstanding Musicianship 2020, the Cherubim Music Trust Harp Prize 2020, consisting in a four year loan of a full-size pedal harp, and holds third prize at the London Camac Harp Competition 2020. She has won various competitions from a young age, including Arpa Plus and L’Arjau in Barcelona.

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In 2020 she performed Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto at Wigmore Hall as part of Trinity Laban’s Strings’ program. She has given solo performances at St. James’s Church Piccadilly, the Lingotto in Turin, Nice Classic Live, Harps on Wight Festival, Agimus Grosseto, and Borough New Music where she performed the UK premiere of Ada Gentile’s piece Scaglie di Mare for solo harp. In London, she regularly performs at the Queen’s House, the Old Royal Naval College Chapel and St. Alfege Chapel.

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Clara is harp tutor at Colfe’s School, orchestral harp tutor at European Youth Summer Music and is deputy harp tutor for Prof. Gabriella Dall’Olio at the Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. As a harp teacher, Clara’s students have won multiple prizes at harp competitions, including first prize at the London Camac Harp Competition, London Young Musician, Glowing Harp Competition in Ukraine, International Fringe Association  in Hong Kong, and have been accepted to the National Children’s Orchestra in the UK.

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Besides her harp studies, in 2017 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in International Development from King’s College London.