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Browse piano sheets by Alexandra Streliski on Zen Virtual Piano. Stréliski, a Montrealer of French and Polish descent, spent a few years in Paris before coming home to Montreal and studying at the Collège international Marie de France, McGill University and the Université de Montréal. In her interview with The Apologist she says she was already working in advertising and was already a bit tired of writing only commissioned music. Her tiredness of commissioned music while working in advertising, set beside her decision to quit her job and pursue her own work full-time, may point to two stages of one working life. She put Pianoscope on Bandcamp and let buyers choose their own price, a willingness to defy classical conventions that Exclaim credits for part of her success. Exclaim says that when Prelude appeared as background music in one of the Oscar nominee montages she was overjoyed, and that when a film then won its first of three Oscars that night, her life changed forever. As interest reached a fever pitch, she quit her job to pursue her own work full-time. Pay-what-you-like pricing paired with background music in an Oscar nominee montage hints at a career built on open doors rather than gatekeepers. She says she had burnout, which she considers close to depression, because she overworked and was no longer doing the right thing, and that such an episode means you have to rethink things a bit. She collaborated on new compositions for the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects. Her remark about rethinking things, set beside her frustration with commissioned music, may suggest that questions about the direction of her work came up at more than one point. Pianoscope offered on Bandcamp at a price chosen by buyers, set beside a miniseries collaboration for HBO, may suggest work that reached audiences by very different routes. For Inscape she wanted an album more imperfect and less controlled than Pianoscope, very human, intimate and personal. Exclaim describes it as a solo piano record like Pianoscope that turns its gaze inward for melancholic, sombre, vulnerable and reflective moments. Two Felix Awards came her way in December 2019, one for Author or Composer of the Year and one for Revelation of the Year; her three albums so far are Pianoscope (2010), Inscape (2018) and Néo-Romance (2023). Inscape's stated aims, imperfect and personal, may point to a record quite unlike the commissioned music she grew tired of.
Browse piano sheets by Alexandra Streliski on Zen Virtual Piano.
Stréliski, a Montrealer of French and Polish descent, spent a few years in Paris before coming home to Montreal and studying at the Collège international Marie de France, McGill University and the Université de Montréal. In her interview with The Apologist she says she was already working in advertising and was already a bit tired of writing only commissioned music. Her tiredness of commissioned music while working in advertising, set beside her decision to quit her job and pursue her own work full-time, may point to two stages of one working life.
She put Pianoscope on Bandcamp and let buyers choose their own price, a willingness to defy classical conventions that Exclaim credits for part of her success. Exclaim says that when Prelude appeared as background music in one of the Oscar nominee montages she was overjoyed, and that when a film then won its first of three Oscars that night, her life changed forever. As interest reached a fever pitch, she quit her job to pursue her own work full-time. Pay-what-you-like pricing paired with background music in an Oscar nominee montage hints at a career built on open doors rather than gatekeepers.
She says she had burnout, which she considers close to depression, because she overworked and was no longer doing the right thing, and that such an episode means you have to rethink things a bit. She collaborated on new compositions for the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects. Her remark about rethinking things, set beside her frustration with commissioned music, may suggest that questions about the direction of her work came up at more than one point. Pianoscope offered on Bandcamp at a price chosen by buyers, set beside a miniseries collaboration for HBO, may suggest work that reached audiences by very different routes.
For Inscape she wanted an album more imperfect and less controlled than Pianoscope, very human, intimate and personal. Exclaim describes it as a solo piano record like Pianoscope that turns its gaze inward for melancholic, sombre, vulnerable and reflective moments. Two Felix Awards came her way in December 2019, one for Author or Composer of the Year and one for Revelation of the Year; her three albums so far are Pianoscope (2010), Inscape (2018) and Néo-Romance (2023). Inscape's stated aims, imperfect and personal, may point to a record quite unlike the commissioned music she grew tired of.
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Alexandra Streliski
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Alexandra Stréliski is a Montrealer composer.
She has released three albums: Pianoscope in 2010, Inscape in 2018 and Néo-Romance in 2023.
Exclaim says Prelude appeared as background music in a nominee montage at the Oscars, and that her life changed forever when a film then won its first of three Oscars that night.
She won two Felix Awards in December 2019, in the categories Author or Composer of the Year and Revelation of the Year.