Italian Pianist and Composer Ludovico Einaudi Embarks on North American Tour with “Essential Einaudi” (Oct 7-Nov 2)

For immediate release Contact Glenn Petry (212) 625-2038 Ludovico Einaudi embarks on “Essential Einaudi” North American tour (Oct 7-Nov 2) [email protected] Italian Pianist and Composer Ludovico Einaudi Embarks on North American Tour with “Essential Einaudi” (Oct 7-Nov 2) Ludovico Einaudi (photo: Postscriptum) This fall, Ludovico Einaudi – the most streamed classical composer in the world, with more followers on Spotify than Mozart – takes his “Essential Einaudi” tour to the U.S. and Canada. Beginning with a west coast swing from Vancouver to Los Angeles, and including stops at Massey Hall in Toronto, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Ludovico Einaudi embarks on “Essential Einaudi” North American tour (Oct 7-Nov 2) Page 2 of 4 Center, and New York’s storied Beacon Theatre, the tour includes material from the Italian pianist and composer’s ninth album, Elements, the first classical release in 23 years to break the Top 15 on Britain’s mainstream charts, as well as music from his hit film scores for Intouchables and Mommy, and much more. When Einaudi released Elements in 2015, it topped classical charts in 42 countries across the globe; upon reaching No. 12 in the UK, it became the highest-charting modern classical album since Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs hit No. 6 in 1992. With what veteran music journalist Paul Morley calls his “total confidence that pretty can be profound,” Einaudi’s compositions have echoes of minimalist, ambient, world, and pop music, resulting in a style born to break genre barriers. He was the first classical act to play the iTunes Festival, on a line-up which included pop diva Lady Gaga and Grammy- winning rapper Kendrick Lamar. As Einaudi said in a recent interview with the New York Times: “I never feel at ease when they try to categorize my work. Also I think labels are in a way restricting. You can put the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the same category, but the types of music, the colors each band evokes, are completely different. It’s the same with Mozart and Beethoven – they express two very different aspects of music. Today when they ask me if my music is minimal, is classical, is contemporary – I can say yes or no, but it doesn’t make sense of what I am doing.” In keeping with his belief in music as a source of spiritual elevation in a troubled world, Einaudi is also a passionate advocate for environmental causes, including the preservation of the shrinking Arctic. In June 2016 he took an expedition on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, which carried messages from eight million people around the globe calling for governments to save the Arctic from threats such as oil drilling and destructive fishing. Upon the ship’s arrival in an Arctic bay, Einaudi debuted Elegy for the Arctic, written for the occasion, alone with a Steinway on a pontoon raft while massive glaciers calved in the background. The video for Elegy for the Arctic is available here, and the newly released behind the scenes footage can be found here. Einaudi was born in Turin, Italy in 1955. His grandfather Luigi was the first post-war President of a newly democratic country, and his father Giulio founded what is still one of the most prominent publishing houses in Italy. Ludovico was introduced to the piano at the age of six by his mother, a pianist and music lover, and his older sister introduced him to Hendrix, Dylan and the Stones. As Einaudi puts it: “Music was where we went to be free of my father’s overpowering world.” At 16 he was studying classical composition, and by the late 1970s he was studying under and then assisting avant-garde composer Luciano Berio whom he met at a concert in Paris. Elements was originally conceived as an homage to Einaudi’s influential mentor. As Paul Morley writes of Einaudi’s time with Berio: Ludovico Einaudi embarks on “Essential Einaudi” North American tour (Oct 7-Nov 2) Page 3 of 4 “It wasn’t so much musical technique or style that Einaudi learnt as general broad-minded curiosity that could take in the Beatles as much as Schoenberg, folk and fable as much as academia and historic research. What Berio taught Einaudi was the idea that there is music everywhere, in buildings, animals, dreams, colours, instincts, emotions, voice, newspapers, language, time, fear, movement, rain, waiting to be transformed into organised sound and a new order, a new dream-like realism.” To download high-resolution photos of Einaudi, click here. ludovicoeinaudi.com youtube.com/user/ludovicoeinaudi twitter.com/LudovicoEinaud instagram.com/ludovico_einaudi/ facebook.com/ludovicoeinaudi Ludovico Einaudi: “Essential Einaudi” in the U.S. and Canada Oct 7 Seattle, WA The Moore Theatre Oct 10 Vancouver, BC, Canada Orpheum Theatre Oct 12 Costa Mesa, CA Sergerstrom Center for the Arts Oct 15 San Francisco, CA Paramount Theater Oct 17 Mesa, AZ Ikeda Theater Oct 19 & 20 Los Angeles, CA UCLA – Royce Hall Oct 22 Miami, FL Ludovico Einaudi embarks on “Essential Einaudi” North American tour (Oct 7-Nov 2) Page 4 of 4 Adrienne Arsht Center – Knight Concert Hall Oct 24 Chicago, IL Symphony Center Oct 25 Toronto, ON, Canada Massey Hall Oct 27 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center Oct 28 Philadelphia, PA Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts - Merriam Theater Oct 29 Washington, DC Warner Theatre Oct 30 New York, NY Beacon Theatre Nov 1 Montreal, QC, Canada Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier – PdA Nov 2 Princeton, NJ McCarter Theater # # # © 21C Media Group, August 2017 .

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