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Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and composer. He began his career as a classical composer. Later, he incorporated other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music. However, no label can truly describe the magical sensitivity and energy of his compositions. Einaudi is truly unique and, in my humble opinion, attending one of his concerts is a life changing experience.
For many years, I enjoyed Ludovico Einaudi’s music and always did a little happy dance when he produced another album.
Then, while I lived in Macau, it so happened that Einaudi gave a concert at the relatively small, but exquisite Macau Cultural Centre.
It was an experience out of this world, involving all senses. There was something almost ethereal about the way Einaudi played the piano. The notes lingered and each touch of his fingers on the keyboard was gentle. Filled with soul.
Unlike most musicians I have experienced on stage, Ludovico Einaudi had the courage to work with the absence of sound as much as he worked with its presence.
Every so often the melody would quiet down to a mere whisper. Until there was only silence. However, the audience sensed it was not the end of the song. Everyone remained still. Waiting for what might happen.
Einaudi held these silences for what was sometimes up to a minute, to then slowly, again, with the faintest touch of the keyboard, play just one barely audible note. Then, a long moment later another, and another…
The audience remained enrapt throughout and gave euphoric standing ovations at the end of the concert.
Throughout, Ludovico Einaudi sat there at the piano, with a quiet, yet profound, humble dignity. In the end, he bowed and gave his audience a heartfelt smile. Then he responded to their “Bravo”s in the language he speaks best. He sat back down in front of his piano and performed another few of his unusually poetic compositions.
Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin, Italy on November 23rd, 1955.
Perhaps it was his mother, an amateur pianist, who gave him the first impulse to music, planting the seeds for what would become a fruitful, illustrious career.
Einaudi started composing his own music as a teenager, first writing by playing a folk guitar.
He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, obtaining a diploma in composition in 1982. That same year he took an orchestration class taught by Luciano Berio and was awarded a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival.
After studying at the conservatory in Milan and subsequently with Berio, Einaudi spent several years in the 1980s composing in traditional forms, including several chamber and orchestral compositions.
In the mid-1980s, he began to search for a more personal expression in a series of works for dance and multimedia, and later for piano.
In the mid-1990s, Einaudi began using his style to compose film soundtracks. He started with two films by Michele Sordillo, Da qualche parte in città in 1994 and Acquarioin in 1996. For the latter, he won the Italian Grolla d’oro for best soundtrack. In 1998, Einaudi composed the soundtrack for Treno di panna and the score for Giorni dispari by Dominick Tambasco.
After many successful years of composing scores for Italian movies, Einaudi gained wider international recognition in 2010, when he wrote the music for the trailer of the Hollywood movie Black Swan.
Then, his Due Tramonti was featured in the film I’m Still Here (2010), directed by Casey Affleck.
From then on, more and more of his compositions found their way into the scores of international Blockbusters as well as independent movie productions.
At the same time, Ludovico Einaudi never stopped composing for his solo albums.
In 2016, Einaudi participated in a campaign to save the Arctic. He performed his Elegy for the Arctic, commissioned by Greenpeace, on a floating platform amidst the ice in the Arctic Ocean.
The same year marked the debut of Dieci Notti at Teatro Dal Verme of Milano, which would become an annual concert series: ten consecutive days of performances, special guests and events, “to give back something to a city that has given me so much”.
Seven Days Walking is the title of the latest album by Ludovico Einaudi. Released on March 15, 2019, three and a half years after his 13th album Elements and a triumphant world tour.
Seven Days Walking is unusual as it is divided into seven episodes, seven albums (Day One, Day Two, etc. until Day Seven), which were released at monthly intervals.
Each episode is focused on several main themes, which are recurring in different form: seven variations following the same imaginary itinerary. Or the same itinerary, retraced in seven different moments.
Einaudi is quoted on his website, explaining his latest piece:
“The idea for Seven Days Walking first came to me as I was listening to the recordings of the first sessions: each version seemed to me to have its own personality, with subtleties so distinct from one another that I was unable to choose which I preferred. I associated everything with walking, with the experience of following the same routes over and over, discovering new details each time. And so in the end I decided to thread them all together in a sort of musical labyrinth, a little like stepping inside the twists and turns of the creative process, to understand how a musical idea can develop in multiple directions, and changing once again at the moment in which it is heard.”
In June and July 2022 his tour will take him to Mexico and Canada.
Beyond 2022, the tour dates and destinations have not yet been announced.
For you, to get a glimpse into Ludovico Einaudi’s magical musical universe:
Ludovico Einaudi – Einaudi: Live From The Steve Jobs Theatre / 2019
Article sources:
Ludovico Einaudi on Wikipedia
Official Website Ludovico Einaudi
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