Pianist Thomas Lambrich – „Suoni di colore“ Tour

In the organizer's words:

After many years of musical abstinence, Hamburg composer and pianist Thomas Lambrich has rediscovered his passion for the piano. The music he is now creating is slowly bringing color back into his black and white world. His neoclassical works, which can be experienced live on the "Suoni di colore" fall tour, are reminiscent of the sounds of Ludovico Einaudi and Max Richter. These very personal compositions offer listeners a journey through sound that allows them to experience the moment intensely in the here and now.

Before the fall tour, Thomas Lambrich will play a number of exclusive summer shows, transporting his audience into a world full of harmonies and melodies, giving every concertgoer an unforgettable experience. His virtuoso sounds reflect the diversity and beauty of piano music and tell a story with every note.

Thomas Lambrich learned to play the piano at an early age and felt equally at home on the piano, church organ, harpsichord and keyboard. Johann Sebastian Bach in particular shaped his musical development. Even as a child and teenager, Thomas Lambrich played numerous concerts and performances in a wide variety of contexts: from oratorios to musicals, from churches to clubs, from christenings to funerals. Music was everything to him and playing for others was the greatest thing. Nevertheless, there followed a longer phase in Lambrich's life in which he no longer performed and devoted himself increasingly to other things.

At a young age, he also lacked the courage to make his first love, music, his profession. And at times he almost lost sight of it completely. But by a wonderful coincidence, the piano once again became the focus of his life. A vocation that is deeply rooted in him.

Lambrich remembers this moment clearly: "It was a November evening, I was sitting in my Tuscan home at my old piano, on which I had started lessons at the age of seven. While improvising, I heard a sequence of notes that I particularly liked. I kept playing and that night it became 'Anelito', the first piece on my debut album 'Suoni di colore' (release: 2023), my first composition ever."

This formative moment led to his decision to give up his old job and devote himself exclusively to music from then on. He was particularly inspired by the neoclassical piano music of modern composers such as Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter, Onalfur Arnalds, Hania Rani and Joep Beving.

"I didn't have the feeling that I was creating sounds. Rather, it felt as if my innermost being was slowly filling up with colors that wanted to be made to sound," says Lambrich.

The works on "Suoni di colore" have the power, especially live, to transport the listener to a place where they are completely enveloped by the music and feel completely at one with themselves. A lingering in the moment, where neither past nor future take place, where existence reveals itself in all its dimensions, similar to a meditation. Each work creates new moods and sensations that are characterized by intimate beauty. These create a deep connection between the musician and the concertgoers.

Thomas Lambrich is currently working on his second album, on which he will go back a long way biographically and process experiences, especially encounters with other people. This time before the great change in his life characterizes the authenticity and truthfulness of his music and enables listeners to experience their own ideas, experiences and feelings through his compositions.

In summer, Thomas Lambrich also devotes himself to his "Piano Toscano" project, in which he travels through his adopted home of Italy with a mobile piano and usually plays in the great outdoors, for example in meadows, vineyards, in the forest or on the beach. These impressions flow into his concerts and the three new compositions, which will be released before the second album in the course of summer 2024. Lambrich goes into raptures when he talks about these trips: "Being in nature gives you a very special power. Combining this experience with music creates unique moments - for my listeners as well as for myself." And he continues about his adopted home: "The beauty of the Tuscan landscape, its picturesque places and the cultural richness, combined

richness, combined with the openness and warmth of the people, are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me."

Thomas Lambrich invites you on an unforgettable journey through sound, creating a magical connection with the audience through minimalist and soulful piano music. The special energy that fills the concert hall creates moments in which the present is intensely felt. Which musicians can claim this?