Alexander Shchetynsky

Born in Kharkiv, in 1960, Alexander Shchetinsky is an important Ukrainian composer whose works, which include a variety of instrumental and vocal compositions, have been widely performed, to considerable acclaim, throughout Europe. Proficient in a variety of avant-garde modes of expression, Shchetinsky seeks, and attains, a personal synthesis of stylistic modalities, thereby transcending mere eclecticism. Shchetinsky's compositional procedure is determined by his belief that music can express religious ideas and spiritual insights. For Schetinsky, musical metaphor is the expre...