Events and Live Performances

Past Events

2025

AUSTRALIA’S Silent Film Festival – live piano music for a number of silent film screenings at Sydney Unitarian Church in East Sydney, including the Japanese gangster film Walk Cheerfully by Yasujiro Ozu, the creepy The Unknown by Tod Browning, featuring the legendary Lon Chaney, the Danish family drama The Master of the House, directed by the great Carl Theodor Dreyer and The Last Command, by Josef von Sternberg.

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto – live piano music for a number of silent film screenings, including Sketches of a Soviet City, a city symphony about Kharkiv and the Russian classic Wings of a Serf by Yuri Tarich.

Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney – live piano music for Malombra (Carmine Gallone, 1917) in occasion of Birth of a Fashion, a series of events to celebrate the Divas of early Italian silent films. Musical interludes with piano arrangements from Turandot and Madame Butterfly by Puccini and from Chinese and Japanese traditional songs for the conference Exoticism. The Orientalist Taste in Italian Art from the Late 19th Century to the First Half of the 20th Century held by Professor Valerio Terraroli. End of Year Soirée 2025, music by Granados and Piazzolla with cellist Massimo Bertucci and tango dance duo Anna Griffiths / Mo Ibrahim.

Piano City Pordenone – Piano Recital Between Two Worlds – Where Music Meets Cinema, with music by Scriabin, A. Vlad, Barber, Badalamenti, Satie, Ravel and Jarrett.

2024

Neapolitan Serenade – Mauro Colombis piano, Nadia Piave soprano, Cesare Popoli and Paola Vertechi voice

A concert of songs and poems from the Piedigrotta tradition, and beyond, organised by Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney in collaboration with Co.As.It.
  • Wednesday, 15 March 2024, 7.00 PM, Italian Forum Leichhardt

Duo MC / BC – Mauro Colombis piano & Beatrice Colombis violin

Classical music concert with works by Paganini, Corazza, Recli, Corigliano, Respighi and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

2023

AUSTRALIA’S Silent Film Festival – live piano music for a number of silent film screenings at the State Library NSW – Screenings included the dinosaur adventure film The Lost World, adapted from the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, Buster Keaton’s comedy Our Hospitality, the introspective and moving comedy / drama The Parson’s Widow by the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, the brilliant queer comedy by Paul Sloane The Clinging Vine, the recently discovered 1916 Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Berthelet, Chicago, a crime comedy-drama directed by Frank Urson and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, and The Son of the Sheik with the iconic Italian Hollywood legend Rudolph Valentino.

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto – live piano music for a number of silent film screenings, including the online streaming event with the piano score for the mountain German film Der Berg des Schicksal (Arnold Fanck, 1924) and the special music event with percussionist Frank Bockius and Romano Todesco at the double bass for the drama Merry-Go-Round (Erich von Stroheim / Rupert Julian, 1923).

QAGOMA – City Symphony Live Music & Film: Nothing But Time

2022

AUSTRALIA’S Silent Film Festival – live piano music for a number of silent film screenings at the State Library NSW and at St Matthews Church, Manly NSW – Screenings included Charlie Chaplin Shorts (The Cure, The Immigrant, The Adventurer), Buster Keaton’s films (Three Ages, The Cameraman), Harold Lloyd’s Grandma’s Boy and Girl Shy, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring and The Lodger, the beautiful romance 7th Heaven by Frank Borzage, Sparrows with “America’s Sweetheart” of silent screen Mary Pickford, the rural thriller Tol’ able David by Henry King, the sparkling The Garden of Eden by Lewis Milestone and the biographical crime-drama Regeneration by Raoul Walsh.

Italian Institute of Culture – Sydney – In February I took part in an event with poetry and music, A Journey with Dante, to remember Dante’s 700 years. I composed a piece for string quartet inspired by Dante’s Paradiso, beautifully performed by the Cousin Quartet and a piano and violin piece inspired by Dante’s Inferno, played with the violinist Beatrice Colombis. The event was performed at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney and included readings from La Divina Commedia with the voice artist Grant Lyndon and chants with The Choir of Christ Church St Laurence. You can watch the whole concert here.