Alejandro Escuer

Mexico - Alejandro Escuer is a well-known and deeply talented flutist and artist whose work has been enjoyed internationally. He’s an award winning performer, a scholar, and an artistic director. His work has received acclaim by The New York Times, TIME Magazine Art Director, New Music Connoisseur, Classical Music Review, The Independent Music Awards, American Record Guide and personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Dick, among many other specialists and personalities. And now he’s on our site! We are so glad to have him.

From his submission:

“MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE: Short video compositions for solo flute” by Alejandro Escuer. Each piece is the result of a reflective process on the implications on how human beings take isolation and social distancing, being a social and congregational species. The series is called “Music from the Inside” for they are all performed from home, from an inner conceptual process on how all of this is affecting us, and yes from my emotional inner world. I am a flutist/composer and university professor and I had to face a monumental cancellation of tours, performances and teaching activities that affect not only my work but also and mainly my relationships with colleagues, students, family and friends who are a the same time, passing to similar processes everywhere. I am very positive and believe that this experience is making us recover the value of inner worlds, of our own solitude, the worth of music, of literature, so at the end, when this is over, hopefully, we will be less banal, less superficial and more appreciative of what we did not know we already have within ourselves.

The videos I am sending are part of an on going project and for now I am sending "112 Seconds" (an introduction) depicting the new value of time, "The Breathing Sword” portraying the importance of the act of breathing for life and music; and finally “Milvus”a piece inspired by the possible extinction of such kind of birds of pray.