NATIONALITY: Italian

HOME: Milan, Italy

NOTEWORTHY: Filippo has proposed a very different way of touring as an artist in 2025-26 and, he hopes, in years to come. “The idea is simple: Instead of constantly travelling from one concert venue to another, I will focus on seven cities in different parts of the world, staying in each for a full month and offering much more than a single performance.”

WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY TO KEEP UP ALL THE CREATIVITY?

I get bored by absence of activity or novelty, so there are always a lot of ideas in the back of my head forming. If I have an impending concert, that is usually my focus and motivation in the days leading up to it, but in emptier periods I develop long term projects. One such project is “Sonata for Seven Cities.” (As noted above.)

WHAT IS A PRODUCT OF ANY KIND YOU RECOMMEND?

Good noise-cancelling earphones: I love silence, I hate noise . . . enough said!