Claire Colombo, Oboe
Claire Colombo was born in Italy in 1993. She began studying the oboe in the class of Diego Dini Ciacci at the “Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan. She met Ernest Rombout during an exchange year at the Conservatory of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, and one year later she joined his class at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna. She has collaborated with several orchestras in Italy and Austria (among others La Verdi, Filarmonica di Milano, Wiener Jeunesse Orchester) and has performed as soloist and in chamber groups in prestigious halls, like the Gläserner Saal of the Musikverein and the Großer Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus. She is a member of the woodwind quintet Wiener Me'Lausch, of which she is also one of the founders and which won various competitions (Fidelio Wettbewerb, Concorso città di Palmanova). With it, she has performed Ligeti's 6 Bagatelles at the Musikverein and Schoenberg's Quintet Op. 26 at the Arnold Schoenberg Foundation. Her great passion, partly due to her two teachers, is contemporary music. In January 2018 she performed pieces by Johannes Maria Staud at the Wiener Musikverein, working with the composer, and in November of the same year she performed ›Sequenza VII‹ by Luciano Berio in the main hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus, as part of the 31st edition of the prestigious festival Wien Modern. She has participated in two editions of Impuls Festival in Graz, performing pieces by Luciano Berio, Isang Yun, Aureliano Cattaneo. In 2019 she was selected to be part of the ULYSSES ensemble, with which she performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, in Snape Maltings, at the IRCAM maniFeste in Paris and at the Royaumont Festival.