Carlo Colombo

Carlo Colombo has been the principal bassoonist of the Lyon National Opera Orchestra since its inception in 1983. He has performed with major European symphonies and opera orchestras in France, Italy, Germany, Swizerland, the United Kingdom and Scotland, and has worked under the baton of renewed European international conductors. Colombo is an avid researcher into the performance of historical instruments, and has performed with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. A New York Times critic wrote, “It was revolutionary, it was romantic, it was wonderful.” Mr. Colombo has been a faculty member of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon since 2001, and joined the faculty at the Lausanne Conservatory in Switzerland in 2005. In the United States, Mr. Colombo has served as a guest professor at Indiana University and Oberlin Conservatory.