Michele Colombo MAUNA (मौन) for cello and bassoon

I wrote this short piece on January 1st, 2026, at the Mulino OhmShanti in the silence charged with harmony that defines it. Together with my son Ludovico, we recorded it a few days later. Mauna (मौन) refers both to the outward abstention from speaking and to the inner state of mental stillness, which is essential for attaining peace and awareness.

Michele Colombo LA SCOPA INFUOCATA “The Fiery Broom” Fiaba musicale pe...

This is the story of a Befana devoted to kindness.

A musical fairy tale.

A moment for young listeners.

An opportunity for anyone who has ten minutes to spare and wants to return to childhood.

The plot?

Only the Befana would risk her life for one or two mosquitoes.

Michele Colombo LE CITTA INVISIBILI per due fagotti

This project was born from an encounter with Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a book that does not describe places, but states of mind, fragile balances, and unseen connections. The cities that Marco Polo recounts to Kublai Khan do not reveal themselves at a glance: they exist in the tension between presence and absence, between memory and imagination.

I chose to wander through some of these cities — Ottavia, Valandra, Bauci, and Ersilia — translating their abstraction into sound. Music becomes an ethereal thread, an intangible sketch that seeks not to render the shape of the cities, but their very essence: suspension, connection, distance, reflection. Ottavia is fragile equilibrium, life suspended on a net that can hold only so far.
Valandra is the double, a mirrored city, the unresolved dialogue between what is and what appears.

Here, sound does not illustrate; it hints. It builds invisible, suspended, unstable spaces.

Bauci is the distant gaze, the observation of the world from a high vantage point, a contemplation of one’s own absence.
Ersilia is the weave of human relations, threads entwined until letting go and being reborn elsewhere becomes inevitable.

Music becomes a place to inhabit, if only temporarily, like Calvino’s cities, inviting the listener to traverse these inner landscapes and complete their meaning through their own experience.

"Amarilli mia bella" FANTASIA DODECAPHONICA by Althea Talbot-Howard for ...

F.R Gebauer CAPRICCIO VI per fagotto solo Michele Colombo Bassoon

Michele Colombo STUDI NDUNESI per fagotto

Scritti nel ridente paese di Induno Olona, che mi ha dato e ancora mi dà i natali, questi tre Studi per fagotto nascono uno dopo l’altro al civico 62 della via che dalla cappelletta conduce alla chiesa.
Sono tre pagine didattiche che sviluppano temi in forma libera di rondò: un pretesto per giustificare il tempo trascorso nel piacere di scarabocchiare sul pentagramma e di suonarne il disegno.
Così, a Induno Olona, c’è chi se la suona e se la canta.
Ai pochi curiosi che avranno voglia di ascoltarli porgo la mia gratitudine — e le mie scuse.

Alexandre Ouzounoff JUNGFRAU Bassoon on the top n.7