The Italian pianist and composer Federico Albanese performs tonight in Barcelona, tomorrow in Madrid and on Saturday in San Sebastian.
The Italian pianist and composer Federico Albanese (Milan, 1982) performs tonight at 21:00 at the Petit Palau in Barcelona and tomorrow he will open the 2022-23 season of the cycle Frontiers of the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, a programme dedicated to promoting dissidence and heterodoxy. This other concert will take place tomorrow, Friday, at 19:30, in the chamber hall of the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid. Albanese’s tour of Spain will end on Saturday, 15 October, at 19:30 in the Sala Club of the Victoria Eugenia Theatre in San Sebastián.
Federico Albanese was classically trained as a pianist when he was a child. To which he added his love of jazz (thanks to the clarinet his father gave him, inspired by the example of Woody Allen), the punk rock of Green Day and the ambient music of Brian Eno and William Basinski, He cites folk, electronic, contemporary classical, Edith Piaf, Miles Davis, Can, Faust, Captain Beefheart, Robert Wyatt, Traffic and the legendary seventies New York band Television, whose album Marquee Moon he considers to be the best album of all time.
Albanese made his recording debut in 2014 with the release of The Houseboat and the Moon and last February he released his fourth album, Before and Now Seems Infinite, whose tracks tend towards a melancholic intimacy close to certain atmospheres à-la Ólafur Arnalds. One of the pieces –Was There a Time– even refers to the sonority of Ludovico Einaudi, his father-in-law – in addition to being a friend, he is the father of Jessica Einaudi, Albanese’s partner -, and whom the pianist considers the “creator” of the public that Albanese, the aforementioned Arnalds or Nils Frahm, among many other names, are addressing today.