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She is also a composer and started her musical career very young.
With light fingers that seem to dance on the keys, Alejandra Pesantez plays a composition with Ecuadorian harmonies. With calm and fluidity but without loss of vigor, the artist plays clbadical compositions to neo-minimalist music.
The pianist, based in Paris, began her musical career at the age of 10, her mother, "like all moms", -explained with humor inscribed in the lessons of this instrument with the Russian teacher Olga Dobrovolskaya. It is then that he falls in love with the piano, the most complete instrument, since he explains: "It has all the timbres and colors of the orchestra. He is very rich. "
In addition to an interpreter, Pesantez is also a composer." Inspired by clbadical plays, "I began to compose empirically." Adriana Ortiz and maestro Ricardo Monteros, director of the Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador, were also his teachers.
"Little by little I was looking for my own voice," says the artist, who is currently completing his studies in musicology at the Sorbonne and piano at the Conservatoire of the Paris Center, as well as a diploma in Franco-Spanish law
Dissemination
One of the objectives of Pesantez is, through his work, to disseminate the music of women. [19659003DuringherstudiesinFranceshediscoveredgreatcomposerssuchas:TeresaCarreñoClaraSchumannMelBonisandCécileChaminadeTheseartistslittleknown"haveexcellentworks:complexrich"explainsHowevertheyhavelittlevisibilityintheworldofmusicforasocialaspectsaysPesantez
"It's the same, for example, for the field of orchestra directors – she points out – women are not very present" Despite this, the pianist and composer believes that the role women in the history of music This has been important.
The Social Work of Music
° "Music is a way of salvation," says Alejandra, who in the future would like to "promote social development through music here in Ecuador, as they are" Have done in several countries ".
The composer is inspired by the example of Venezuela's National System of Orchestras and Choirs for Youth and Childhood, also called El Sistema.
El Sistema, founded in 1975 by the Venezuelan musician and economist José Antonio Abreu, uses instruction and musical practice as a motor for the social and humanistic development of children and young people.
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