Ernesto Colombo

Ernesto Colombo
Born in Lecco in 1986, began his musical studies at the age of six with Adelio Ballabio and later with Luigi Fioroni.

Then he followed a masterclass with Cristiano Pirola. Since 1997 he has collaborated with the Orchestra Giovanile di Lecco, conducted by Pierangelo Gelmini, and since 2004 with the Lecco Symphony Orchestra, with which he has performed numerous operas, operettas and symphonic productions.
In 2008, together with other musicians, he became a founding member of the “Orchestra di Fiati della Brianza” in which he is vice-president and percussionist.
Since 2011 he has collaborated as percussionist and timpanist with the Antonio Vivaldi Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorenzo Passerini, where he also works as production director.
Parallel to the study of percussion instruments, he grew fond of conducting, following in 2008 a course at the International Academy of Music in Erba, with Angelo Sormani and later he specialized with Ennio Nicotra.
He currently works with Lorenzo Passerini in opera and symphonic productions.
Over the years he has conducted the orchestra of the Abruzzo Symphony Institution, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, the Orchestra of Matera and Basilicata, the Orchestra Città di Magenta and the Orchestra of Mediterranean musical meetings.
Since 2019 Ernesto Colombo has shared the artistic direction of the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra with Lorenzo Passerini, organizing over forty symphonic-operistic productions every year.