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Posted: October 27, 2023

Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin on November 23rd 1955. Perhaps it was his mother, an amateur pianist, who first introduced him to music, planting the seeds for what would become an illustrious career. 

His 2002 score for the remake of “Doctor Zhivago” triumphed at the New York Film Festival, confirming the increasing prestige of his soundtracks: “Not of This World” (2000), “Light of My Eyes” (2001), “Strange Crime” (2004), “This is England”, film (2004) and TV series (2010), “The Untouchables” (2011), “Samba” (2014), “The water diviner” (2015) and “The third murder” (2017). He began performing in increasingly important venues.

The live concerts at La Scala of Milan, also recorded on disc, as well as the special concerts at the Hangar Bicocca and the Royal Albert Hall, marked the coronation of full artistic expression. In his next studio album, “Una mattina”, released in 2004, Einaudi’s music becomes more concentrated and introspective, while in the following “Divenire” it expands, driven by the sonorities of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Emerging from long winter walks in the mountains, “Seven Days Walking” is an ambitious and visionary project of seven records, released monthly from March to October 2019, representing as many variations around the same imaginary route, “following the meandering creative process as in a labyrinth, among the forms denuded by the cold, in a kind of extreme essentiality”. At the same time as the cadenced album releases, he resumed touring major American and European venues, including seven consecutive sold-out shows at London’s Barbican.

Also in 2019, he wrote the original music for “Mary said what she said” about the life and torments of Mary Stuart, directed by Bob Wilson, starring Isabelle Huppert and produced by the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris. He was also commissioned by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo to compose the opera “Winter Journey”, with the original libretto by Colm Tóibin and direction by Roberto Andò: a journey through the desolate winter of today’s Europe. Both works confirmed the composer’s maturity and depth in musical theatre.

Performances and world tours were interrupted by the pandemic, but some of his music from “Seven Days Walking” and “Elements” continued to walk on its own, in the two most awarded films of the season: “Nomadland” by Chloé Zhao, (six Oscars, two Golden Globes and the Golden Lion in Venice) and “The Father”, by Florian Zeller. Much of his musical production for the big and small screen is collected in a double album with the title “Cinema” which was released in June 2021, preceded by two collections recorded during the lockdown and released in 2020: “12 songs from home”, played on the piano at home, and “Einaudi Undiscovered”, a series of lesser-known songs, memories, surprises and rediscoveries selected by the composer.

In the summer of 2021, Einaudi took his music back to nature, in a series of eleven concerts immersed in the breathtaking scenery of national parks, nature reserves, creeks, valleys, lakes and pristine mountain meadows, reachable only on foot, at dawn, at dusk and under starry skies. An invitation to merge the musical experience with the natural landscape.

But it was the experience of suspended time during the lockdown, “with the world outside quiet and silent”, that led to the new solo piano album, released in 2022 and entitled “Underwater”, “a metaphor for fluidity without external interference”. A fresher and more immediate approach to music, in the flow of emotions, in an intimate conversation, face to face, with the piano”.

musicfeeds - W. MACKELLAR writes…Celebrated composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has announced a string of Australian tour dates, following his addition to the 2024 Perth Festival lineup. Einaudi will play a number of dates in venues across the country, beginning with four nights at the Sydney Opera House from Friday, 2nd to Monday, 5th February. The pianist will then head to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Wednesday, 7th February, finishing up at Perth Festival with two shows on Friday, 9th and Saturday, 10th February. See the full list of dates and grab tickets below.

“I love touring in Australia for a few reasons,” Einaudi says of the upcoming tour. “First, the audience is so open and warm. Second, I have many childhood beautiful memories connected with Australia because my granddad lived there for half of his life, and my mom used to tell me wonderful tales and stories about its land and inhabitants that it has become part of my DNA.”

The composer is the most-streamed classical artist of all time, and has become remarkably more famous in recent years thanks to songs like ‘Experience’ going viral on TikTok. His 2013 album In A Time Lapse went three times platinum, and in 2022 Einaudi released the solo piano record Underwater to similar critical acclaim.

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