Ludovico Einaudi

In the organizer's words:

Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi is one of the most streamed classical artists in the world with an average of over nine billion streams per year. Many of his albums climb to the top of the charts, while his award-winning film scores, including for "Pretty Best Friends", the remake of "Doctor Zhivago" for "Light Of My Eyes", "This Is England", "Nomadland" and "The Father" reliably achieve the highest popularity ratings among internet users. Over the course of his long career, he has touched more and more people with his music and has gained a loyal, incomparably diverse audience that continues to grow. Accordingly, his concerts in the world's most renowned concert halls are regularly sold out.

With his unique blend of elements from classical, rock, electronic and world music, Ludovico Einaudi defies conventional notions of genre boundaries and audience preferences and has thus become one of the world's best-known and most popular composers of our time. His shows are like immersive experiences that send audiences and musicians alike into a meditative frenzy, regularly ending in frenetic cheers.

Ludovico Einaudi's work "The Summer Portraits" (2025) proves how he transforms memories into music: Inspired by oil paintings he discovered in a villa on a Mediterranean island, he created a tribute to the beauty of summer and the images this season awakens in us. In February 2026, "Solo Piano" was released - a touching collection of his most popular pieces from his 30-year career, from timeless classics such as "Nuvole Bianche", "Una Mattina" and "Experience" to new, emotional compositions such as "Memory One" and "Adieux". Einaudi thus builds on the ideas of his previous work and once again shows how his minimalist, visual music tells stories and takes listeners on a journey through time and emotions.

After a successful summer tour in 2025 with eleven sold-out arena shows and a sold-out concert at the Waldbühne in Berlin, Ludovico Einaudi will pay another visit to Germany on July 13, 2026: the Italian pianist will play an exclusive concert at the LANXESS arena in Cologne.