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9/17/2015 Ludovico Einaudi Long Biography Music Sales Classical http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/longbio/LudovicoEinaudi 1/2 Search Repertoire Search Home / Composers / News / Genre / Listen / Rental / License / OnDemand / Film & TV / Calendar / Buy / Pops Ludovico Einaudi > Short Bio > Long Bio > Snapshot > News > Works > Performances > Discography > Photos > Listen Composers Ludovico Einaudi Born: 1955 Nationality: Italian Publisher: Chester Music Luminous, emotive, effortlessly lyrical and always supremely refined the music and performance of Ludovico Einaudi have attracted an ever growing audience over the last two decades whose diversity and devotion are without parallel. He has released a series of charttopping albums , sells out the most prestigious concert halls worldwide, composed a string of awardwinning film scores and routinely tops audience polls becoming an internet phenomenon. With a unique musical alchemy that draws on elements of classical, rock, electronica and world musics he has rendered traditional ideas of genre and audience divide obsolete and become not only one of the best known composers in the world today but almost certainly the best loved too. Ludovico was born in Turin, Italy and trained as a classical composer and pianist at the Milan Conservatorio before continuing his studies with Luciano Berio, one of the most important composers of the twentieth century avantgarde. His career began with a series of prestigious commissions for institutions such as the USA’s Tanglewood Festival, Paris’ IRCAM and recently the National Center of Performing Arts of Beijing , but he turned away from what seemed a glittering classical career to forge his own musical path, giving him the freedom to reconcile his widerranging influences. It was a bold strategy but one quickly rewarded, when Ludovico’s electric harp suite ‘Stanze’ (1997) was first played on BBC Radio the switchboard jammed with listeners. It was a similar story with his next release ‘Le Onde’ (1998), a solo piano cycle he performed himself. A listenerorganised campaign made it Ludovico’s breakthrough and a permanent fixture atop the Classic FM charts. This upswell of grass roots activity, snowballing with the onset of the internet and social media, has allowed Ludovico to build a uniquely close relationship directly with his audience. ‘Le Onde’ also ignited Ludovico’s career in Film & TV music and he has since composed many awardwinning scores including ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (2002) and ‘Sotto Falso Nome’ (2004) which also became successful albums in their own right. In recent years Shane Meadows’ acclaimed film ‘This Is England’ (2006) and its television sequel ‘This Is England ‘86’ (2010) have brought a BAFTA nomination for Ludovico and introduced his music to a huge new audience. In 2011 another acclaimed film used his music: “ Intouchables” by Olivier Nakache and Eric Soledano. The film has been voted as the cultural event of 2011 in France and it has been submitted for the 85th Academy Award. Ludovico built on the impact of ‘Le Onde’ with a series of albums notable for their exuberant experimentation. ‘Eden Roc’ (1999) saw an array of guest musicians and instruments ranging from electric guitar to the Armenian duduk. ‘I Giorni’ (2001) deepened this engagement with world music in Ludovico’s second collection for solo piano. His ‘best of’ collection from these first four albums ‘Echoes: The Einaudi Collection’ (2003) has since gone to sell more than 100,000 copies. As Ludovico’s fame grew, his concert schedule naturally grew along with it and became an increasingly important part of his life. It immediately led to two new albums, Diario Mali (2005), a collaboration with kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko and his first live solo album ‘La Scala Concert 03.03.03’ (2003), recorded in his adopted city of Milan. The release of ‘Una Mattina’ (2004) saw more ‘firsts’, it was Ludovico’s debut album on new and current record label Universal and also his most ‘classical’ to date. Largely written for solo piano, it leapt to the top of the UK Classical album chart and gave him his first soldout UK tour. Now one of the most popular composers in the UK and throughout Europe, at home Ludovico’s reputation scaled even loftier heights and thus on May 26th, 2005 in Rome, Ludovico Einaudi was awarded the ‘Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana’ (or ‘OMRI’) the senior order of Knighthood bestowed by the Italian Republic. The stage was set for ‘Divenire’ (2007) his most musically ambitious album yet and his greatest commercial success to date. ‘Divenire’ gathered many of the musical ‘streams’ that had flowed through Ludovico’s career and expanded on them with the help of The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and a battery of digital effects. On release it became a phenomenon, topping classical charts throughout Europe and crashing the Italian pop charts. With sales in excess of 300,000 copies and a BRIT awards ‘Album of the Year’ nomination, Ludovico embarked on his biggest tour yet, 80 dates across Europe. One was captured for his second live album ‘Live In Berlin’ (2008) and it all culminated at a memorable concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. With people around the globe now clamoring to see him Ludovico became a permanent fixture on the road, traveling to new audiences in India, Japan and the USA. Along the way he formed a collaboration with Robert Lippock of postrock band ‘To Rococo Rot’ and the results would be heard in two albums released in 2009, one featuring Ludovico as ‘band member’, the other as a solo artist. First was ‘Cloudland’ (2009) the debut from ‘Whitetree’ comprising Ludovico on piano, Robert Lippok on electronics, and Robert’s brother Ronald Lippok on drums which has a sunny African feel amid the cuttingedge electronics and percussion.

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Ludovico EinaudiBorn: 1955Nationality: ItalianPublisher: Chester Music

Luminous, emotive, effortlessly lyrical and always supremely refined the music andperformance of Ludovico Einaudi have attracted an ever growing audience over thelast two decades whose diversity and devotion are without parallel. He has releaseda series of chart­topping albums , sells out the most prestigious concert hallsworldwide, composed a string of award­winning film scores and routinely topsaudience polls becoming an internet phenomenon. With a unique musical alchemythat draws on elements of classical, rock, electronica and world musics he hasrendered traditional ideas of genre and audience divide obsolete and become notonly one of the best known composers in the world today but almost certainly thebest loved too.

Ludovico was born in Turin, Italy and trained as a classical composer and pianist at the MilanConservatorio before continuing his studies with Luciano Berio, one of the most important composers of the twentieth centuryavant­garde. His career began with a series of prestigious commissions for institutions such as the USA’s TanglewoodFestival, Paris’ IRCAM and recently the National Center of Performing Arts of Beijing , but he turned away from what seemed aglittering classical career to forge his own musical path, giving him the freedom to reconcile his wider­ranging influences.

It was a bold strategy but one quickly rewarded, when Ludovico’s electric harp suite ‘Stanze’ (1997) was first played on BBCRadio the switchboard jammed with listeners. It was a similar story with his next release ‘Le Onde’ (1998), a solo piano cyclehe performed himself. A listener­organised campaign made it Ludovico’s breakthrough and a permanent fixture atop theClassic FM charts. This upswell of grass roots activity, snowballing with the onset of the internet and social media, hasallowed Ludovico to build a uniquely close relationship directly with his audience.

‘Le Onde’ also ignited Ludovico’s career in Film & TV music and he has since composed many awardwinning scoresincluding ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (2002) and ‘Sotto Falso Nome’ (2004) which also became successful albums in their own right. Inrecent years Shane Meadows’ acclaimed film ‘This Is England’ (2006) and its television sequel ‘This Is England ‘86’ (2010)have brought a BAFTA nomination for Ludovico and introduced his music to a huge new audience. In 2011 anotheracclaimed film used his music: “ Intouchables” by Olivier Nakache and Eric Soledano. The film has been voted as the culturalevent of 2011 in France and it has been submitted for the 85th Academy Award.

Ludovico built on the impact of ‘Le Onde’ with a series of albums notable for their exuberantexperimentation. ‘Eden Roc’ (1999) saw an array of guest musicians and instruments ranging from electric guitar to theArmenian duduk. ‘I Giorni’ (2001) deepened this engagement with world music in Ludovico’s second collection for solo piano.His ‘best of’ collection from these first four albums ‘Echoes: The Einaudi Collection’ (2003) has since gone to sell more than100,000 copies.

As Ludovico’s fame grew, his concert schedule naturally grew along with it and became an increasingly important part of hislife. It immediately led to two new albums, Diario Mali (2005), a collaboration with kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko and his firstlive solo album ‘La Scala Concert 03.03.03’ (2003), recorded in his adopted city of Milan.

The release of ‘Una Mattina’ (2004) saw more ‘firsts’, it was Ludovico’s debut album on new and current record labelUniversal and also his most ‘classical’ to date. Largely written for solo piano, it leapt to the top of the UK Classical album chartand gave him his first sold­out UK tour.

Now one of the most popular composers in the UK and throughout Europe, at home Ludovico’s reputation scaled even loftierheights and thus on May 26th, 2005 in Rome, Ludovico Einaudi was awarded the ‘Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana’(or ‘OMRI’) the senior order of Knighthood bestowed by the Italian Republic.

The stage was set for ‘Divenire’ (2007) his most musically ambitious album yet and his greatestcommercial success to date. ‘Divenire’ gathered many of the musical ‘streams’ that had flowed through Ludovico’s career andexpanded on them with the help of The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and a battery of digital effects.

On release it became a phenomenon, topping classical charts throughout Europe and crashing the Italian pop charts. Withsales in excess of 300,000 copies and a BRIT awards ‘Album of the Year’ nomination, Ludovico embarked on his biggest touryet, 80 dates across Europe. One was captured for his second live album ‘Live In Berlin’ (2008) and it all culminated at amemorable concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

With people around the globe now clamoring to see him Ludovico became a permanent fixture on the road, traveling to newaudiences in India, Japan and the USA. Along the way he formed a collaboration with Robert Lippock of post­rock band ‘ToRococo Rot’ and the results would be heard in two albums released in 2009, one featuring Ludovico as ‘band member’, theother as a solo artist.

First was ‘Cloudland’ (2009) the debut from ‘Whitetree’ ­ comprising Ludovico on piano, Robert Lippok on electronics, andRobert’s brother Ronald Lippok on drums ­ which has a sunny African feel amid the cutting­edge electronics and percussion.

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‘Nightbook’ (2009) Ludovico’s seventh solo album was a perfect contrast. Meditative and  introspective it charts an inwardvoyage through dreams and the shadows of the psyche with evocative use of electronics. Ludovico calls it his ‘Dark Side ofThe Moon’ and though challenging it too found immediate resonance with his audience who once again took Ludovico to thesummit of the charts and back into the concert halls.

The ‘Nightbook’ tour produced ‘The Royal Albert Hall Concert’ (2010) a double CD and DVD documenting Ludovico’s concertat the venue in March 2010. Drawing on every part of a now distinguished career, it shows a composer and performer at thevery height of his creative powers.

In 2010 and 2010 he has been invited to conduct the “Concertone” of the Festival La Notte della Taranta in the Puglia regionwhere more than 100,000 people danced the whole night away . A succesful tour also followed which included two sold out inLondon at Barbican. The music has its roots in the wild dances that were meant to ward off the effects of a tarantula bite, andLudovico’s La Notte della Taranta

Orchestra combines singers, mandolin, virtuoso tambourines, percussion, accordion, strings, organ and guitar in a madprofusion of exuberant music. Einaudi has refreshed the tradition by rearranging the old songs, writing new music, andinviting international guests such as The Turkish multi­instrumentalist and DJ Mercan Dede, the greel singer Savina Yannatou, Ballake Sissoko the Malian kora player and the Guitarrist/composer Justin Adams and the Gambian griot Juldeh Camara.

In 2011 the collection “Island” which includes also some unpublished works reached a terrific success. The tour in the sameyear brought him also touring in Asia where he performed in a series of sold out concerts in Japan, Thailand , Vietnam, andtwice in China.

Other Highlights of his activity in 2012 include: a performance at BT River of Music in July , anacclaimed tribute to Luciano Berio with his composition “The Elements” premiered in Rome in September and hisparecipation at the London Film Festival in Oct 2012 playing at the projection of “This is England” with live score. In Novemberhe has been awarded with the Premio Vittorio De Sica from the President Giorgio Napolitano.

“In a Time Lapse” is the new album recorded in October 2012 in a Monastery near Verona. The cd was released in January2013.

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