Born in Versailles, Denis Comtet studied organ with Gaston Litaize[1] at the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés conservatory.
[4] He became associate chief of the Accentus (choir) between 2003 and 2007, which he directed at the Cité de la musique, the Besançon International Music Festival, as well as the Ircam.
In 2013 he began a collaboration with the RIAS Kammerchor which he prepared for productions with orchestra (Berlin Philharmonic) or else for premieres (Disputatio by Pascal Dusapin in 2015).
In 2002, he was appointed assistant conductor of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, where he collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös, Jonathan Nott, Heinz Holliger.
At the theatre he directed the Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 by Mozart (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées of Paris), the Lamentations by Helmut Lachenmann (Cité de la Musique of Paris), Der Mond by Carl Orff (Amphitheatrer of the Opéra Bastille), The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček (Lille Opéra), Peter and the Wolf by Serge Prokofiev (Rouen Opéra, Besançon), the Nouvelles Aventures by György Ligeti (Capitole de Toulouse, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux), l'Opéra de Lune by Brice Pauset (Opéra de Dijon).