Claude Coppens (born 23 December 1936, Schaarbeek, commune of Brussels) is a Belgian pianist and composer.Coppens studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Marcel Maas and in Paris with Marguerite Long.He is a Laureate of the Marguerite Long Competition (1955), the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition for Piano (1956), and the International Piano Competition in Rio de Janeiro (1957), where he performed the first piano concerto of Heitor Villa-Lobos, conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho, and for which he received the Villa-Lobos prize.As an interpreter he is known for his faithfulness to the original intentions of the composer.