Composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi performed a concert to a unique audience: a film crew and a couple arctic terns.

Einaudi teamed up with Greenpeace and travelled to the North Pole to perform his “Elegy for the Arctic”, a powerful piece composed for a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness about climate change’s effects on the Arctic region. He played his piece for the first time, on a grand piano while floating on a platform stage in the Arctic Ocean.

The Arctic Ocean. Photo: Greenpeace

In the video produced by Greenpeace, the music echoes around the magnificent glaciers and is accompanied by the sound of ice breaking and falling into the sea.

The performance was timed right before an OSPAR convention, a convention for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic, in Tenerife, Spain, that could help to protect the Arctic Ocean.

According to the activist organisation, the Arctic Ocean, inhabited by polar bears, narwhals and arctic foxes, is the least protected ocean in the world. As a result of climate change, the area is losing its glaciers, leaving it exposed to oil drillings and fishing trawlers.

The Voices for the Arctic campaign has gathered than 7.5 million supporters.