Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi

Information
Age	62
Sex	Male
Act	Pianist
Seasons	BC
Position Reached	Preliminaries

Ludovico Einaudi was a pianist act from FantasyAGT: Battle of the Champions. He was eliminated in the Preliminaries.

Background[]

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. He trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan. Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, and began incorporating other styles and genres—including pop, rock, world music, and folk music.

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 Gasparian from Armenia. His music is ambient, meditative and often introspective, drawing on minimalism and contemporary pop.

Einaudi composed the scores for a number of films and trailers, including This Is England, The Intouchables and I'm Still Here, the TV miniseries Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario in 1996, for which he won the Grolla d'oro for best soundtrack. He has also released a number of solo albums of piano and orchestra, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013. Taranta Project, a collaborative album, was released in May 2015, and Elements was released in October 2015. [1]

Preliminary[]

Ludovico Einaudi's preliminary performance in Episode BC05 consisted of playing his song, "Elegy for the Arctic", an original piece made with the message to preserve the Arctic Ocean, on the piano. Mike and Pennies gave him standing ovations. His performance was not strong enough for the judges to send him to Judge Cuts, eliminating him from the competition instead of William Close.