The Music
Clouds from North, Alexander Pechenyuk
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Alexander Pechenyuk’s meditative Clouds from North paints a sweetly melancholic portrait of our home planet. The opening melody strives continually upwards, but keeps being pulled back down by slowly drifting chords. It gradually settles into circling ostinato, over which a new melody climbs ever higher. The ostinato eventually breaks apart, freeing the melody to float into the stratosphere and disappear, leaving a last lonely trace of the earthbound ostinato. | ||||
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ALEXANDER PECHENYUK was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (of the former USSR). After finishing high school he entered The Tashkent State University of Economics, and it is here where he began writing music. Upon completing his Master’s Degree in Economics, he entered the Composition Faculty of The Tashkent State Conservatory where he graduated with a Master’s Degree in Music Composition in 1986. Since then, his symphonic and chamber compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals throughout Russia and Europe. In 2001 Alexander Pechenyuk immigrated to Canada. Amongst performers in recent years are Canada’s largest orchestras, such as The Vancouver and Winnipeg Symphonies. | ||||
