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Alexandra Streliski - Changing Winds
Alexandra Streliski - Plus tot (Official Video)
Alexandra Streliski | Revient Le Jour | First Play Live
Burnout Fugue & Overturn | Live @ Stingray PausePlay
Overturn (Official Video)
Sheet Music Review: Inscape - Alexandra Streliski
CTV - Your Morning
1 Plus tot
2 The Quiet Voice
3 Par la fenetre de Theo
4 Ellipse
5 Changing Winds
6 Interlude
7 Blind Vision
8 Burnout Fugue
9 Overturn
10 Revient le jour
11 Le Nouveau Depart
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Eight years after her first self-released, critically-acclaimed Pianoscope ; an album imbued with both melancholy and light (The Telegraph UK), Alexandra Stréliski is thrilled to be unveiling her raw and sincere sophomore album titled INSCAPE, set to be released on October 5th via Secret City Records. 

Recorded in the Fall of 2017 at Studio PM in Montreal, INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is resolutely current. Produced by Alexandra Stréliski herself and Maxime Navert (who also co-produced Pianoscope), the attempt was to fill a certain emotional emptiness, a creative urge that commits to taking the listener back to a form of lost sincerity. "A piano, on its own, is a very vulnerable thing, and I want to share this moment with the listener," explains Alexandra. 

Stréliski has been in the spotlight this Summer following an incredible artistic collaboration with Jean-Marc Vallée for his latest HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams. Alexandra was included in the process of using her music and tailored pieces were requested from the pianist. In the end, Alexandra's pieces from both her previous album Pianoscope and her new release INSCAPE are heard multiple times in six of the eight episodes, including the crucial scene of the finale, which aired last August 26th. Alexandra also wrote the theme for the third episode and recorded a Bach Concerto for Sharp Objects which was released last July.  Since then, her single Plus tôt is now over 2 million streams online.

One of the rare women in the neoclassical world, Alexandra Stréliski creates music that enthralls listeners, filling their minds with rich, cinematic images. An artist of Polish Jewish origin who grew up between Paris and Montreal, she made her debut with the 2010 album Pianoscope. The aforementioned support of Jean-Marc Vallée, which allowed Stréliski's music to be heard during the Oscars ceremony in 2014, brought her streaming numbers up to nearly 15 million and saw her play sold-out concerts at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in recent years. The Telegraph (UK) praised her debut album as "distinguishable by its simplicity, its sensitivity and softness".

  • Alexandra Streliski comes to Trinity-St. Paul's Centre in January / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: September 20, 2023
    One of the rare women in the neoclassical world, Alexandra Stréliski creates music that enthralls listeners, filling their minds with rich, cinematic images. An artist of Polish Jewish origin who grew up between Paris and Montreal, she made her debut with the 2010 album Pianoscope, but the general public discovered her via Jean-Marc Vallée's films Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Demolition (2016) and, more re...

  • Alexandra Streiliski, among semi-finalists for 2023 Polaris Music Prize / CTV Montreal
    Posted At: June 13, 2023
    CTV Montreal - Chris Young writes…..Quebec artists Alexandra Stréiliski, Philippe Brach, Thierry Larose and Bibi Club are among the 40 semi-finalists who make up the long list for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize for the best Canadian album of the year.A 205-member jury considered a total of 221 albums before selecting the top 40. Jury members judge offerings “solely on their artistic merit and without regard t...

  • Alexandra Streliski chats about 'Neo-Romance' with FM91 - Toledo
    Posted At: June 8, 2023
    To mark the release of Néo-Romance, ALEXANDRA STRÉLISKI and XXIM/Sony scheduled a series of celebrations and media appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. On 21st of March, following on German breakfast television, STRÉLISKI headed to Paris - a city she feels a particular connection with given the years she spent there as a child - where she hosted an evening of music at the Bibliothèque Musicale La Gran...

  • npo-klassiek highlights Alexandra Streliski - Neo-Romance
    Posted At: May 21, 2023
    To mark the release of Alexandra Stréliski's Néo-Romance, STRÉLISKI and XXIM/Sony scheduled a series of celebrations and media appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. On 21st of March, following on German breakfast television, STRÉLISKI headed to Paris - a city she feels a particular connection with given the years she spent there as a child - where she hosted an evening of music at the Bibliothèque Musi...

  • Alexandra Streliski: From ad agency to award-winning musician with a hand from Jean-Marc Vallee / Toronto Star
    Posted At: May 16, 2023
    Stréliski, who has a new album out, “Neo-Romance,” says the late director gave her a push to make music her career.The Toronto Star's Nick Krewen writes…..A funny thing happened in 2018 when Montreal composer Alexandra Stréliski released “Inscape,” her instrumental album of lush piano music.It became not only a smash hit in her home province of Quebec and the rest of Canada, selling over 160,000 copies of a...

  • Alexandra Streliski - Neo-Romance makes INSIDEPULSE 'The Week in Music'
    Posted At: April 24, 2023
    To mark the release of Néo-Romance, ALEXANDRA STRÉLISKI and XXIM/Sony scheduled a series of celebrations and media appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. On 21st of March, following on German breakfast television, STRÉLISKI headed to Paris - a city she feels a particular connection with given the years she spent there as a child - where she hosted an evening of music at the Bibliothèque Musicale La Gran...

  • Alexandra Streliski is inspired by Jean-Marc Vallee's intuition / TALKHOUSE
    Posted At: April 19, 2023
    Alexandra Stréliski is a Montreal-based neo-classical composer and pianist. Her latest record, Néo-Romance, is out now on Sony Masterworks/XXIM.  The pianist and composer remembers the filmmaker, her late friend and collaborator.Alexandra Stréliski writes…We didn’t meet for a long time, actually. It’s just that Jean-Marc Vallée was in love with music, as a director who composed his films himself with t...

  • Alexandra Streliski describes 'Neo-Romance' as a serene space at the heart of our modern reality / The Bobr Times Q&A
    Posted At: April 1, 2023
    To mark the release of Néo-Romance, ALEXANDRA STRÉLISKI and XXIM/Sony scheduled a series of celebrations and media appearances on both sides of the Atlantic.  On 21st of March, following on German breakfast television, STRÉLISKI headed to Paris - a city she feels a particular connection with given the years she spent there as a child - where she hosted an evening of music at the Bibliothèque Musicale L...

  • Alexandra Streliski changes air with 'Neo-romance' / The Times Hub
    Posted At: March 31, 2023
    The Times Hub writes….In October 2018, Alexandra Stréliski launched Inscape, a second album, like the signal of a lighthouse that allowed him to come out of the darkness of a depression experienced the previous year. Millions and millions of online streams later, its successor, Neo-romance, comes to our ears after having been conceived under very different conditions, those of the bliss of love. Stréliski g...

  • Alexandra Streliski | open heart / WIRENEWS
    Posted At: March 29, 2023
    WIRENEWS - Victor Evlogiev writes….When Alexandra Stréliski released her second album, Inscape, in 2018, it was a bit like a bottle overboard. -She says: But I thought if we sold 2000 of them, that would be great. »With 140,000 albums sold in Canada alone and some 300 million online streams worldwide, let’s say four and a half years later, his status has completely changed.The musician dropped into the offi...

  • Alexandra Streliski plots 2023 international tour / exclaim
    Posted At: February 9, 2023
    For new record Néo-Romance, Montreal pianist and composer Alexandra Stréliski pondered a question. Intrigued by Romanticism, the romantics, and their “super dark” relationship to nature, she wondered what it all meant in this modern world we’ve created. “The ancient past, freedom from rules, devotion to beauty, these big romantic themes, but really expressed in a post-modern way,” she says. “How do you rema...

  • Alexandra Streliski - Inscape is nominated for 2, 2020 JUNO Awards
    Posted At: January 29, 2020

    Eight years after her first self-released, critically-acclaimed Pianoscope, Alexandra Stréliski unveiled her raw and sincere sophomore album titled INSCAPE on Secret City Records.  Stréliski is an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach to neoclassicism is resolutely current. The attempt on INSCAPE was to fill a certain emotional emptiness, a creative urge that commits to t...

  • Alexandra Streliski - Inscape makes lifehacker's 'best music for 2019'
    Posted At: December 26, 2019

    Half of the Lifehacker staff can't work with music on. The other half needs it. Here's what we listened to this year while working on Lifehacker. Alexandra Stréliski's sincere sophomore album titled INSCAPE via Secret City Records was recorded in the Fall of 2017 at Studio PM in Montreal. INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is reso...

  • Echoes reprises Alexandra Streliski feature
    Posted At: May 13, 2019

    Alexandra Stréliski's INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is resolutely current. Stréliski has been in the spotlight this Summer following an incredible artistic collaboration with Jean-Marc Vallée for his latest HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams. Since then, her single Plus tôt is now over 2 million ...

  • Alexandra Streliski reveals what it's like hearing her music on the big screen / CTV - Your Morning
    Posted At: January 26, 2019

    One of the rare women in the neoclassical world, Alexandra Stréliski creates music that enthralls listeners, filling their minds with rich, cinematic images. An artist of Polish Jewish origin who grew up between Paris and Montreal, she made her debut with the 2010 album Pianoscope, but the general public discovered her via Jean-Marc Vallée's films Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and...

  • Alexandra Streliski on Echoes
    Posted At: January 14, 2019

    Eight years after her first self-released, critically-acclaimed Pianoscope ; an album imbued with both melancholy and light (The Telegraph UK), Alexandra Stréliski unveiled her raw and sincere album titled INSCAPE, via Secret City Records. Recorded at Studio PM in Montreal, INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is resolutely current. Str&eac...

  • Alexandra Streliski's raw emotion comes through on Inscape / CLASSICAL POST
    Posted At: January 2, 2019

    French Canadian pianist Alexandra Stréliski is inspired by emotions, people, and the experiences she lived. "I cannot make a distinction between that and the way I write," she said. This is why her work touched many emotions to those her listen to it, recently via Jean-Marc Vallée's films Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Demolition (2016), as well as the trailer of the acclaimed HBO series Big...

  • Alexandra Streliski shares new INSCAPE video for 'Overturn' / sonofmarketing
    Posted At: November 12, 2018

    Alexandra Stréliski is a French-Canadian composer and pianist which made her debut with the album Pianoscope in 2010. Two years after Demolition, she's back with a new album. INSCAPE is out now via Secret City Records. Recorded in the Fall of 2017 at Studio PM in Montreal, INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is resolutely current. Prod...

  • Alexandra Streliski performs 'Burnout Fugue' and 'Overturn', on Stingray PausePlay
    Posted At: November 2, 2018

    Eight years after her first self-released, Alexandra Stréliski unveils INSCAPE via Secret City Records. Recorded in the Fall of 2017 at Studio PM in Montreal, INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is resolutely current. Produced by Stréliski along with Maxime Navert (who also co-produced Pianoscope), the attempt was to fill a certain ...

  • Alexandra Streliski's 'INSCAPE' will inspire, depress, and satiate all at the same time / VUEWEEKLY
    Posted At: October 24, 2018

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} The word "cinematic" has been used to describe Alexandra Stréliski's work before, but what exactly does that mean? On paper, cinematic music is created for a specific scene in a film or series, and while ...

  • Alexandra Streliski's 'INSCAPE' is a melancholic, bright step towards finding hope / ATWOOD MAGAZINE
    Posted At: October 23, 2018

    We want to know that there is more beneath the surface; that our world is not just some infallible course that ultimately is vacant. We want to be left in a state of wonderment and awe, to find difficulty in comprehending why certain visuals or sounds leave us weeping while still accepting that some questions don't need answering. What we crave is emotion, a characteristic we hope to find in all aspects ...

  • Alexandra Streliski's 'Overturn' makes ourculture - Sound Selection
    Posted At: October 13, 2018

    The last song on our Sound Selection is by the wonderful Alexandra Stréliski who brings us a wave of emotions in a mellow composition that will have one's heart shifting with its delicate melody. The song is ‘Overturn' and is accompanied by an artistic music video, which takes influence from the late Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. ‘Overturn' is part of Strélisk...

  • Alexandra Streliski would much rather pop than Bach / billboard
    Posted At: October 12, 2018

    As one of the foremost new stars in modern classical, pianist Alexandra Stréliski is a wealth of knowledge of masters, measures and complex music theory. But when speaking with Billboard, it becomes clear she'd much rather talk pop than Bach (though her heartbreaking interpretation of his Concerto in D Minor may suggest otherwise). "I listen to pop music much more than I listen to classica...

  • Charts are responding to Alexandra Streliski - INSCAPE
    Posted At: October 10, 2018

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  • Alexandra Streliski performs 'Revient Le Jour' on CBC: First Play
    Posted At: October 10, 2018

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} Alexandra Stréliski 's new album Inscape came out last week. The Montreal-based pianist has been capturing a lot of attention thanks in part to filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée's frequent use of ...

  • 'Sharp Objects' composer Alexandra Streliski abandons stability to produce her most intimate album yet / noisey
    Posted At: October 5, 2018

    The dust is settling for neoclassical composer Alexandra Stréliski. After a year spent ravaged by the existential chaos of losing her place in the world, the release of the Montreal native's sophomore record, INSCAPE, marks her emergence from the ashes. EIght years since her debut album, Pianoscope, Stréliski's recordings have been featured in Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club, HBO's Big Lit...

  • Alexandra Streliski approaches the height of her compositional powers on Inscape / exclaim!*@#
    Posted At: October 2, 2018

    There's always been a cinematic quality to Alexandra Stréliski's music, honed from years working in advertising as a composer. In the eight years since quietly self-releasing debut album Pianoscope, slowly the world started taking notice, until director Jean-Marc Vallée placed songs from the record in his works, including Dallas Buyers Club, Demolition and the trailer of Big Little ...

  • Alexandra Streliski unveils with humility and sensitivity on Inscape / VOIR
    Posted At: October 2, 2018

    At 33, Alexandra Stréliski chose to trust herself. After languishing in the world of advertising as a composer, the neoclassical pianist unveils with humility and sensitivity on Inscape, a second album that takes stock of "a transient zone", an unstable period during which she had to leave everything behind. collapse to better rebuild. "I wrote this album in a troubled moment of my life: burn-...

  • Talkhouse Weekend Playlist presents: The Soundtracks of Alexandra Streliski
    Posted At: September 28, 2018

    You may not know Alexandra Stréliski's name, but you definitely know her music. The composer and pianist has been featured on the soundtracks to Dallas Buyers Club, Demolition, and the HBO series Sharp Objects. With Alexandra's new album, Inscape, due out next week, we asked her what her favorite soundtracks were and she compiled this playlist. On her own "Plus Tôt" (Sharp Objects) she comme...

  • Alexandra Streliski showcases her solo compositions at Festival de Musique Emergente / exclaim!*@#
    Posted At: September 3, 2018

    Neoclassical piano music is having a moment in Canada these days, between the emergence of Jean-Michel Blais, the impending release of Chilly Gonzales' Solo Piano III and Alexandra Stréliski's delicate piano soundscapes, which have been heard in much of the recent work by director Jean-Marc Vallée - including HBO's latest summer smash series Sharp Objectsand Oscar...

  • Alexandra Streliski on CBC q
    Posted At: August 28, 2018

    Alexandra Stréliski is a pianist and close collaborator of film director Jean-Marc Vallée. Her work has been featured in films like Dallas Buyers Club and television shows like Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Eight years after her first self-released, critically-acclaimed Pianoscope ; an album imbued with both melancholy and light (The Telegraph UK), Alexand...
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