Alexandra Stréliski

Pianist and composer Alexandra Stréliski wrote and performed the albums Pianoscope and Inscape for which she won five ADISQ Félix Awards as well as a Juno Award. Her sensitive, accessible music gently evokes “inner landscapes” transformed by the colours of the orchestra. Discover the hushed sounds of the world of Alexandra Stréliski in the company of the OSM.

Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Thomas Le Duc-Moreau, Assistant Conductor of the OSM

Thomas Le Duc-Moreau began his term as Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2019. His previous experience includes similar functions with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec in 2018–2019 and with the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, from 2016 to 2018. He is also Artistic Director of Ensemble Volte. Thomas Le Duc-Moreau holds a bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance (2016) and a Master’s in Orchestral Conducting (2018) from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where he studied respectively under Carole Sirois and Jacques Lacombe. Thomas also enjoyed the opportunity to perfect his skills with conductors Alexandre Bloch, Michael Francis, Fabien Gabel and Julian Kuerti.

Alexandra Stréliski

Alexandra Streliski is a Montreal based pianist who creates minimalist and cinematic music. As Billboard calls her “one of the foremost new stars in modern classical”, Noisey describes her music as “a contrast of depth and fragility that uncannily resembles the human condition itself.”

From an early age, Streliski was moved by romantic composers such as Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Schumann but film composers like Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass and John Williams were also a great inspiration for her as she grew up. One of the rare women in the modern classical world, Streliski made her debut with the album Pianoscope in 2010. Independently released, the album eventually reached 15 million streams and was heard in various film and TV projects. Jean-Marc Vallée’s Oscar nominated film “Dallas Buyers Club” even led her music to be heard at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2014.

Even though from a classical academic background, Streliski doesn’t bother too much with conventions or labels. In her attempt to fill a certain emotional emptiness and collective need for calm, she looks to take listeners back to a form of lost sincerity, looking for the purest and simplest way of expressing an emotion through art, with the only voice of a piano.

Webcast presented in collaboration with the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

Friday, July 2, 2021 – 7:30 PM (EDT)
Until July 16, 2021 – 11:59 PM (EDT)

To purchase your ticket visit: www.osm.ca