MARIKA
OBOE
LOMBARDI

Italian oboist Marika Lombardi studied at the Milan Conservatory (CNSM), where she earned first prizes in oboe and chamber music under M. Possidoni. After a successful debut in Milan as a soloist in 1988 with Daniele Gatti's orchestra, she went to Paris to study at various conservatories, where she won several first prizes. She furthered her studies with renowned masters such as Pierre Pierlot, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Maurice Bourgue, Ingo Goritzki, Lothar Koch, and Sergiu Celibidache, and is a laureate of several international oboe and chamber music competitions, including the Cziffra Foundation competition, and received a special prize at the Paris International Chamber Music Competition.
She performs regularly in chamber music and with orchestras in Europe and the USA, and also gives masterclasses. She has played with renowned performers such as Bruno Canino, Henri Demarquette, Franck Braley, Sylvie Gazeau, Olivier Charlier, and pianist Nathalie Dang, with whom she regularly performs in duo. Since 2000, she has been the artistic director of the Lasino International Music Academy and the "Risonanze Armoniche" Festival (Trento), as well as the "OBOE" oboe festival in Paris. Since 1992, Marika Lombardi has taught oboe in Paris at the Conservatoire Municipal du Centre and the 9th arrondissement, and at the Pantin Regional Conservatory of Music. She has also taught at the Aubervilliers Regional Conservatory and the Schola Cantorum in Paris. For several years, she has dedicated herself to composition and improvisation. She has already recorded a dozen CDs featuring the oboe with several record labels: Bottega Discantica, Dynamic, Continuo Records, Da Vinci and Brilliant Classic, Novantiqua Records…
Marika Lombardi plays a Howarth-London instrument. She also plays the baroque oboe (CEM baroque oboe in 2017).
For the past ten years, Marika Lombardi has also practiced sound painting (an improvisation technique guided by sign language) with the Amalgammes ensemble under the direction of Christophe Mangou, and for the last five years she has been leading a campaign to promote this technique through various workshops in Italy and France. In 2020, she obtained Soundpainter certificates 1 and 2 from Walter Thompson and François Jeanneau and teaches sound painting at the Pantin Regional Conservatory (CRD) and at Pôle Sup 93.