Ludovico Einaudi Tickets

The pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin on 23 November 1955. Perhaps he owes his mother, an amateur pianist, the first impulse to music and what would become a distinguished career. He began his music studies at the Conservatory of Turin and graduated from the Conservatory of Milan with Azio Corghi, then perfecting himself with Luciano Berio, whose assistant he became, and with Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1982 he won a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he got in touch with the new trends of American minimalism. In the following years he composed music for ballet, cinema and theatre, such as "On the edge of Orpheus" (1984), "Time out" (1988), "The wild man" (1991), "Salgari" (1995) and several orchestral and ensemble works performed at La Scala in Milan, Ircam in Paris, Lincoln Center in New York. With the album "Stanze" of 1992, which collects sixteen compositions for the harp of Cecilia Chailly, begins "a journey to the essential, in search of maximum intensity with the minimum indispensable". But it is with "Le Onde", the first solo album inspired by the stories of Virginia Woolf, that in 1996 captures international attention, further increased by the subsequent "Eden Roc" (1999), which hosts a string quintet and duduk by Djavan Gasparyan, and from "I Giorni" (2001), a cycle of piano ballads inspired by a trip to Mali. In Africa he returns two years later, at the invitation of the Festival au Desert. From that experience he recorded "Diario Mali" together with the master of kora Ballaké Sissoko.

The music he wrote in 2002 for the remake of "Doctor Zhivago" triumphed at the New York Film Festival, confirming the growing prestige enjoyed by his soundtracks, from "Out of the world" (2000), "Luce dei miei occhi" (2001), "Sotto falso nome" (2004), "This is England" (2004) and TV series (2010), until "Intouchables" (2011), "Samba" (2014), "The water diviner" (2015) and "The third murder" (2017). The theatres in which he plays are becoming more and more significant.

The concerts at Teatro alla Scala of Milan, also recorded on record, at the Hangar Bicocca and at the Royal Albert Hall mark a reached artistic fullness. In the new studio album "Una Mattina" of 2004, Einaudi’s music becomes more concentrated and introspective, while in the following "Divenire" it expands into the sonorities of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Both records, which already dominate the charts of classical music, break into pop for the first time. He will be the only classical musician to play in the first iTunes festival. On the long world tour that follows, he constantly writes new music.

In 2009 they release "Cloudland" with Robert and Ronald Lippok, and "Nightbook", night work, interior, which "projects the piano like a shadow, in all directions". The climax of the tours in Europe and USA is once again at the Royal Albert Hall, from which a double disc and a DVD are taken.

For two consecutive summers he conducts the Orchestra della Notte della Taranta, producing himself in a visionary musical performance that leaves its mark on the traditional music of the "black land of the tarantula".

In 2013 "In A Time Lapse" is released, a reflection on the time, which is recorded in a monastery and "conceived as a suite or the chapters of a single novel", where around the piano converges strings, percussion and electronics. Many are the memorable concerts of the following world tour, those at the Sydney Opera House and the Arena di Verona on all, but also the special concert "Piano Africain", for six pianos and as many balafons and marimbe with which Piano City Milano opens in 2014.

The album "Elements" comes in 2015 "from the desire to start a new, to try different ways". Three months of recordings in the home studio in the Langhe "while outside the spring was exploding" and the album becomes "a map of thoughts and feelings, points, lines, shapes and fragments of a single inner flow between myth, Euclid, the periodic table, the writings of Kandinsky". Over the next three years, "Elements" tours fill the world’s theatres and great pop arenas.

Ludovico Einaudi plays his "Elegy For The Arctic", commissioned by Greenpeace, on a floating platform in the ice of the Arctic Ocean.

Also in 2016 begins the annual appointment of December at Teatro Dal Verme in Milan: a series of consecutive concerts with special events "to return something to a city that has given me so much".

From long winter walks in the mountains, "Seven Days Walking" is born, an ambitious and visionary project of seven discs published monthly from March to October 2019, as many variations around a same imaginary route, "entering the meanders of the creative process as in a labyrinth, between the forms stripped by the cold, in a sort of extreme essentiality". At the same time as the album releases, it resumes tours in major American and European theatres, including seven consecutive sold out shows at the Barbican in London.

Also in 2019 he writes the original music for "Mary said what she said" on the life and torments of Maria Stuarda, directed by Bob Wilson, the interpretation by Isabelle Huppert and the production of the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Commissioned by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, he composed the opera "Winter Journey" with the original libretto by Colm Tóibin and directed by Roberto Andò, a journey into the desolate winter of today’s Europe. Both works are acclaimed by critics and the public as innovative examples of musical theatre. Performances and world tours are interrupted by the pandemic, but not the path of music.

Some compositions from "Seven Days Walking" continue to walk in the most awarded films of the film season such as "Nomadland" by Chloé Zhao and "The Father" by Florian Zeller, while the music production for the big and small screen is collected in a double album with the title "Cinema" that comes out in June 2021, following two collections recorded during the lockdown and published in 2020: "12 Songs From Home", played on the home piano and "Einaudi Undiscovered", a series of less known songs, memories, surprises and rediscoveries selected by the author.

In the summer of 2021, Einaudi brings his music back to nature in eleven concerts immersed in the exciting scenery of national parks, natural reserves, coves, valleys, lakes and unspoilt highlands, reachable only on foot, at dawn, sunset, under the starry skies. An invitation to blend the musical experience with the natural landscape.

But it is still from the suspended time of the lockdown "with the world out of quietness and silence" that the new solo piano album was born, released in 2022 under the title "Underwater", underwater, "metaphor for fluidity without external interference. A fresher and more immediate approach to music, letting go to the flow of emotions, in an intimate conversation, one-on-one, with the piano".