Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI born 23 November 1955 is an Italian pianist and composer Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan Einaudi began his career as a classical composer later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop rock folk and world music Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions including This Is England The Intouchables Im Still Here Nomadland the TV miniseries Doctor Zhivago and Acquario 1996 for which he won the Grolla doro His music was used as the score for the Golden Globe and Academy Awardwinning films Nomadland and The Father He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments notably I Giorni in 2001 Nightbook in 2009 and In a Time Lapse in 2013 On 1 March 2019 Einaudi announced a sevenpart project named Seven Days Walking which was released over the course of seven months in 2019 Einaudi was born in Turin Piedmont His father Giulio Einaudi was a publisher working with authors including Italo Calvino and Primo Levi and founder of Giulio Einaudi Editore while his paternal grandfather Luigi Einaudi was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955 His mother Renata Aldrovandi played the piano to him as a child Her father Waldo Aldrovandi was a pianist opera conductor and composer who emigrated to Australia after World War II 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 According to Einaudi Luciano Berio did some interesting work with African vocal music and did some arrangements of Beatles songs and he taught me that there is a sort of dignity inside music I learnt orchestration from him and a very open way of thinking about music He also learned by collaborating with musicians such as Ballaké Sissoko from Mali and Djivan Gasparyan from Armenia His music is ambient meditative and often introspective drawing on minimalism and contemporary pop After studying at the conservatory in Milan and subsequently with Berio Einaudi spent several years composing in traditional forms including several chamber and orchestral compositions He soon garnered international attention and his music was performed at venues such as the Teatro alla Scala the Tanglewood Music Festival Lincoln Center and the UCLA Center for Performing Arts In the mid1980s he began to search for more personal expression in a series of works for dance and multimedia and later for piano Some of his collaborations in theater video and dance included compositions for the Sul filo dOrfeo in 1984 Time Out in 1988 a dancetheater piece created with writer Andrea De Carlo The Wild Man in 1990 and the Emperor in 1991 Later collaborations include Salgari Per terra e per mare 1995 an operaballet commissioned by the Arena di Verona with texts by Emilio Salgari Rabindranath Tagore and Charles Duke Jr and EA Poe 1997 which was conceived as a soundtrack for silent films Source Article Ludovico Einaudi from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30