Composer and pianist from millions of followers, Andrea Vanzo performs in magical places, making scenic videos, accompanied by his poetic and kind music
When Andrea Vanzo, composer and pianist, describes, or rather to say he narrates, the design of his home, one cannot not remain enchanted and not understand how that refuge, immersed in the almost uncontaminated nature of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, has been and continues to be the main source of inspiration for his music that exceeds the billion listening every month.
Born in Bologna and graduated from the Conservatory, Andrea Vanzo has imposed himself in the contemporary scene thanks to his melodies that mix the pure poetry of contemporary classical music with pop shades capable of perfectly adapting to the enchanting scenarios in which he frees his notes. Because Andrea does not sound only in theaters; It sounds immersed in nature. And it does so with a unique tool in the world: a removable piano.
Andrea, you were a music lover since the first years of life
“My musical story begins as a very young, because I began to play the battery, forcing my parents to buy one at three and a half years. I cultivated my family music involving my cousins and every pretext was good for organizing spectacles in which I was rigorously defined behind the scenes.”
You started a little quietly we can say …
“Not only that, I actually continued to work behind the scenes for several years of my professional life. At the age of eleven I began to feel the need to approach musical writing: I left the battery where the harmonic and melodic part came for, for the piano. I carpy the musical passages that fascinated me and analyzed them, thanks also to my musical ear. My classmates to play them! After the elementary school, however, I became shy and introverted.
Meaning what?
“The period of the pandemic detention allowed me to reflect: I had spent years in which I had given all myself to music, without being able to see concrete results. I decided to throw myself firsthand. I felt the need to say:” Just stay behind the scenes, I write the music I want to do, with the meaning I want to give him! “. And at that time, the only way to do it were the social ones. Used!
With the instinct to deserve a leading role you have conquered millions of followers. Today in your video sounds in spectacular places thanks to a removable piano that you created with your dad Umberto.
“I have always had a desire: to be able to bring my piano to the top of the Sciliar, in the heart of the Dolomites, where my father’s roots are and where I spent many summers of my childhood. Desire so strong as to become a challenge. So my” removable “piano was born, obviously a hybrid, acoustic and electronic piano, which can be dismissed in blocks transportable on the shoulder and weighing as much as possible, built Massimo Russo carpenter in the laboratory of my father Umberto, restorer and decorator.
The scenarios of your performances are always breathtaking: enchanted territories of the Dolomites and Sardinia, Etna, Wadi Rum.
“There must always be a link with the place where I choose to play. For example,” Tales from the Citadel “is a song that I wrote in one of my visits to Jordan, after visiting the citadel, in the center of Hamman, an incredible place: a small town capable of enclosing centuries of history. In setting the video to Wadi Rum, in a Jordan that geographically represents a bridge, covered with a bridge: On the one hand, the inspiration of the place, on the other, a message of union, especially in this historical moment.
You have always been fascinated by the soundtracks for the cinema. You have them different producedwinning several prizes. Which soundtrack of world cinema you find particularly fascinated?
“What totally kidnapped me is the soundtrack of” close -up of the third type “, by John Williams. It is naturally particular: music becomes enchanting the language with which aliens try to communicate with human beings. At the end of the film, in a spectacular scene, a mutual fusion of harmonies is created that makes me crazy! Favorite composer, John Williams has always given me many ideas: I sailed it in all his meanders.“
Your tour will start in November internationalincluding Mexico, Brazil, Latin America and Kazakhstan, e in October Your new album comes out: “Intimacy vol.2“
“On 10 October” Intimacy vol. 2 ”, continuation of“ Intimacy vol. 1 “published in 2022 Won my fear of the stage, fear that I still have, but I can manage.
That intimacy that a shy boy who composed contemplating nature from the enormous windows of his suggestive hearth, transformed into a kind and aware music. Music for those who know how to listen to it, capable of embracing and healing.
