This Italian made waves with a floating piano on Lake Como. Now he's coming to L.A.

Pianist Alessandro Martire spent years convincing section officials to fto him play portion floating connected the glittering bluish waters of Lake Como successful bluish Italy, but erstwhile the amusement — called “Floating Waves” — yet came to pass, the internationally celebrated edifice municipality intelligibly was meant for specified a spectacle.

Pictures from the archetypal performance look similar thing retired of a sweeping romanticist epic— with Martire sitting earlier his custom-crafted, astir futuristic Waves piano, designed by Italian designer Claudio Bargna from the municipality of Cantù, known for its artisanal furniture.

More than 5,000 radical watched from the enactment successful 2020. During consequent performances, spectators took successful the euphony from boats and rafts connected the water.

“I instrumentality inspiration from these elements — mountains, lakes, oceans — to make music,” Martire, 32, said successful a video interrogation from his location by Lake Como a week earlier his quality Sunday astatine Barnsdall Gallery Theatre successful Los Angeles. “People bask the euphony successful these places, and erstwhile I execute successful a earthy landscape, euphony elevates the moment.”

The “Floating Waves” shows led Martire to recovered a biannual event, the Lake Endless Joy Festival, which showcases music, creation and taste programming by Italian and planetary artists, acceptable successful immersive locations passim the Lake Como region. Some young composers execute astatine iconic lakeside venues, others look successful lesser-known spaces worthy of find — deliberation a sunrise performance successful a hidden villa. Martire said helium often helps artists make enactment that successful is dialog with the earthy and humanities discourse of each location.

Tapping into the powerfulness of a peculiar abstraction oregon spot drives Martire’s philharmonic process. He has a played connected a snowy hillside successful the Alps, successful an Australian godforsaken astatine sunset, atop the Duomo successful Milan and successful Charyn Canyon of Kazakhstan.

His Waves soft has some acoustic and integer settings, the second champion suited for outdoor performances. The soft can’t beryllium transported to the U.S., truthful successful L.A. he’ll usage a accepted soft to play alongside the city’s all-female Orchid Quartet successful a visually immersive amusement filled with projections.

Another Waves soft is being made for usage successful North America, Martire said, adding that his location basal volition stay Lake Como for now, but helium hopes to walk rather a spot of clip successful California. His euphony tin champion beryllium described arsenic neoclassical, with popular and physics elements — and a dash of ambient smoothness. The effect is cinematic, and soundtracks are portion of Martire’s repertoire. His euphony was precocious utilized successful the documentary “Ottocentonovantasei Nuvole,” directed by Andrea Basile, which traces a pandemic travel crossed Italy from Clusone to Palermo.

Martire learned soft astatine a young property and began composing astatine 15. His parent was a cook and his begetter worked for the nationalist railway, but euphony was omnipresent successful the house. Martire developed a emotion for Chopin and besides for the enactment of soundtrack composers including John Williams and Ennio Morricone.

He continued his studies successful Boston astatine Berklee College of Music and began to refine his dependable erstwhile helium came location to Italy. That dependable became afloat realized with the instauration of the Waves soft successful 2020.

The distinctive piano, helium said, “represents my music, quality and the question of antithetic cultures.”

Martire finds inspiration for his compositions successful the galore places helium has traveled and is ever looking for the adjacent stunning earthy vista successful which to perform.

His California imagination venue? Joshua Tree National Park.