O2 London Honors KMJ CEO Stuart Galbraith For 100th Show & Ludovico Einaudi For 1st

Start Galbraith promoted his 100th show at The O2, London, and received a Gold Brick Award from the venue to honor this milestone.

Incidentally, Galbraith’s 100th show at the iconic building was Ludovico Einaudi‘s first – or first of two, one should say, as a second date was added to the original July 10 performance – for which he received The O2’s First Time Award.

Not only did the July 10 show mark Einaudi’s first performance at The O2, it was also his biggest show in the UK in his 45 year career.

This year, the Italian composer also played Birminghams Symphony Hall (May 2), The Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead (May 1), two nights at the Royal Albert Hall London (April 28-29), as well as Usher Hall in Edinburgh (April 25).

Einaudi moved 9,514 tickets for both Royal Albert Hall shows, grossing $1,262,321, according to the boxoffice reports submitted for the shows by independent UK promoter Serious Events Ltd., which was also a partner on the July 10-11 O2 shows, for which the boxoffice reports hadn’t yet been submitted at the time of writing.

The First Time Award for Einaudo follows the presentation of the Silver Clef Innovation in Music Award, presented to the artist at the Royal Albert Hall the evening before, July 9. It was presented to him by Anna Lapwood, the Hall’s resident organist, who supported Einaudi on his UK dates.

Einaudi last performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 2025, when he came into town for a five-night residency, June 30-July 4, before heading to Manchester for a July 6, 2025, show at Co-op Live, where he moved 11,346 tickets at a $1,370,653 gross.

Stuart Galbraith’s Gold Brick Award for his 100th show at The O2 will sit backstage on the arena’s Promoter Wall of Fame, a display honoring major milestones at the arena for event organizers.

Einaudi’s debut London The O2 Arena performance follows-on from a plethora of recent Kilimanjaro Live successes in the genre of classical music. The company has also taken Lord of the Rings Orchestral into larger venues in both the UK and Australia, and also launched an arena tour for Lapwood.

Other examples of KMJ’s classical expertise are it work as long-standing partner of Andrea Bocelli’s camp, as well as Hans Zimmer Live and the World of Hans Zimmer alongside Semmel Concerts; multiple sold-out solo piano recitals with pianist Lang Lang as well as creating and producing a theatre concert tour this coming autumn for Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds.

Lang Lang’s most recent Pollstar Boxoffice entries from the UK are an Oct. 10, 2025 performance at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall (2,174 tickets, $222,662 gross), and an Oct. 3, 2025 show at the Liverpool Philharmonic (1,671 tickets, $176,695 gross).

Stuart Galbraith commented, “What an honor and a privilege to be awarded a Gold Brick on the Promoter Wall of Fame, and for it to be triggered by Ludovico’s debut performance at London’s The O2 Arena. Both Ludovico and I have enjoyed careers spanning over 45 years in the entertainment industry, and it’s incredibly special to be able to share this milestone evening with him.”

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