Davide Martello

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Davide Martello in Park Fiction, Hamburg, July 5, 2013

Davide Martello (born November 1, 1981 in Lörrach ) is a German-Italian pianist with Sicilian roots who works as a street musician .

Live and act

Martello grew up in Tuningen , between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb . His father, who encouraged his talent, shared his joy in classical music. At the age of 13 he composed his own pieces. After graduating from secondary school, he trained as a hairdresser in Konstanz . On the weekends he played in hotel bars, applied to a music school in Berlin at the age of 27, but preferred to realize his dream of building his own piano. He bought an old grand piano into which he built speakers and LED lights.

From October 2006 to spring 2010 he developed 17 songs together with Nadja Adam. One of them was published on the CD "Sound of Konstanz".

In 2010 Martello quit the barber shop and went to Berlin. He transports his wing in a car trailer and unloads it with an electric cable before hanging it on his bike and driving the last few meters to his one-man show. He played his first “concert” on Potsdamer Platz. Since 2011 he has been traveling around the world and playing architecturally interesting places with his own compositions. He had already played in 32 countries by 2014. Martello calls his travels "piano art". In December 2012 he played a Christmas concert in a Bundeswehr camp in Afghanistan . In June 2013, during the protests in Turkey , he gave several performances in Taksim Square in Istanbul. Martello also played on the Majdan in Kiev and in front of the government building in the civil war city of Donetsk during the political unrest there. Martello has been referred to in the press as the "angel of peace on the wing". On October 26, 2014, by chance, he got caught up in the riot instigated by hooligans in Cologne and was able to calm the situation down for a while with a spontaneous concert on Breslauer Platz. He also appeared at the demonstration in Hanover on November 15, 2014 for the event “ Hooligans against Salafists ”. One day after the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris , he played the John Lennon song Imagine near the attacked Bataclan concert hall .

His albums were produced in-house in the Konstanz recording studio of his producer Patrick Wind .

Private

Martello's parents came to Germany in the 1960s. The father worked as a guest worker in his profession as an industrial mechanic and metal worker. The family joined Jehovah's Witnesses. Martello lives in Constance .

Awards

  • 2015: European Citizens' Prize for his courageous game on the Maidan in Kiev, Taksim Square in Istanbul and against the violent hooligans in Cologne.

Albums

  • I venti , piano art, Konstanz 2008.
  • Le melodie notturne , piano art , Konstanz 2009.
  • The Secret , piano art, Konstanz 2010.
  • Memories , piano art, Konstanz 2011.
  • 5 , piano art, Konstanz 2012.
  • 9pm Works, Part 1 , piano art, Konstanz 2012.
  • 9pm Works, Part 2 , Piano Art, Konstanz 2013.
  • Nations , piano art, Konstanz 2013.
  • La danse du soleil , piano art, Konstanz 2014.
  • Forever , piano art, Konstanz 2015.
  • Nightplay , piano art , Konstanz 2018.

Web links

Commons : Davide Martello  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Davide Martello plays in the Luther Church in Konstanz ( memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), bodensee-woche.de, message from May 4, 2008, accessed on June 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ project pianism , nadja-adam.de, accessed on January 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ 18 bands from Konstanz on one CD , suedkurier.de, message from April 28, 2010.
  4. ↑ Report in Focus No. 3/2015, pp. 52–57
  5. ^ Südkurier, accessed July 6, 2013
  6. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , accessed on June 16, 2013
  7. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost , accessed on June 16, 2013
  8. ^ Davide Martello: More than a street musician. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. December 7, 2014, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Davide Martello: The Angel of Peace on the Wing , mopo.de, message from June 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger October 27, 2014 ( online )
  11. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 17, 2014 ( online )
  12. ↑ He also played in Cologne: Street pianist Davide Martello mourns in Paris ( memento of November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Express , November 14, 2015, accessed on June 2, 2019
  13. ↑ Der Träumer vom Bodensee , focus.de, article from January 10, 2015.
  14. ^ Winner of the European Citizens' Prize 2015 , europa.eu, notification from June 4, 2015.


personal data
SURNAME Martello, Davide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach