LUDOVICO EINAUDI SEVEN DAYS WALKING []

Sunday 19 January, 1pm Princess Theatre, Launceston

Presented by Mona Foma in arrangement with Arts Projects

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Ludovico Einaudi – piano Federico Mecozzi – violin and viola Redi Hasa – cello

THE PROGRAM

The artist will present his new project Seven Days Walking and selected songs from his previous albums.

PROGRAM NOTES

I started thinking about these pieces in the winter of 2018 I was in the Alps and every day I would go for long walks in the snow, Following more or less the same route It snowed heavily, And I began to lose myself in the storm As in a state of meditation The shapes, blurred by the cold, had lost their contours Without colour, Only their essence remained After a while I began to realise that each time I was seeing something different I would see A light, an animal, a house, a person, Something I had not seen before I thought that all this was Very similar to the creative process The times when you search The times when you feel lost And those when you suddenly discover something I thought of my walks as variations on the same theme The same musical route, In seven slightly different versions Seven times the same path In seven days Time expands Tone changes The gaze is lost in space The mind is transformed —Ludovico Einaudi, 2019 THE ARTIST

Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in , and subsequently with , spending several years composing in traditional forms. 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.

He has released a series of chart-topping albums, sells out the most prestigious concert halls worldwide, composed a string of award-winning film scores and television productions, including critically acclaimed Strange Crime, the TV miniseries Doctor Zhivago, , , I’m Still Here, Insidious and The Water Diviner directed by .

Over the last two decades, he has thrilled an ever-growing audience whose diversity and devotion are without parallel. Ludovico’s latest recording venture, the series Seven Days Walking, consists of seven volumes of music released over seven months from March 2019. His opera Winter Journey with the libretto by Colm Toibin premiered in October in Palermo to extraordinary reviews, exploring the many and tragic dimensions of the refugee crisis which has engulfed Europe in the last decade. He also famously performed on an Arctic ice floe for Greenpeace.

With an unique musical alchemy that draws on elements of classical, rock, electronica and , he has rendered traditional ideas of the genre and audience divide obsolete, becoming the world’s most streamed classical artist and one of the best known composers in the world today—as well as, almost certainly, the most loved. Arts Projects Australia (APA) is an arts and event management company which operates as a producer and presenter of high quality contemporary performing arts and events. www.artsprojectsaustralia.com.au

Director: Ian Scobie AM Producer: Daniel Vorrasi Marketing Manager: Nicola Prime Production Manager: Mark Muller Administrator: Di Farrell