Events and Live Performances

Silent Films 2025 TBA

Past Events

Birth of a Fashion – Screening of Italian silent film Malombra (Carmine Gallone 1917) with Mauro Colombis piano

Birth of a Fashion a series of events to celebrate the Divas of early Italian silent movies and the fashion movement that was created by Milanese stylist Rosa Genoni (1867–1954), organised by Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney
  • Saturday, 8 March 2025, 18.15, Dendy Cinema Newtown

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.