Alain Lefèvre the composer
Alain Lefèvre’s recording world would not be complete without mentioning the importance of the composer he has become in recent years. Picture Garden, his fourth album featuring his own compositions, is a much-awaited opus after his Blissfully Sleepless, which earned him a Félix at the 2006 ADISQ Gala.
“I was four years old when I first sat down at the piano, he recalls. Still today, my daily rendez-vous are shared with Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, and so many others… Unfailingly they are there waiting for me, demanding, listening each and every day to my finger gymnastics. Each time, I have to surpass myself and transcend their scores on the stages of the world. Always, I strive to deliver the purest essence of these great composers. Quite a challenge. I would close a window on the world, if I didn’t find my own heartbeat, my release, in the rigorous discipline that is the hallmark of classical music.
So, composing came as a natural step, a new breathing, musically setting down my anxieties, joys, sorrows, disappointments, dreams, expectations and happiness. I was fifteen when a first musical theme made its way from the inner workings of my mind to the forefront of my thoughts. Since then, some thirty works which I have composed, rest in my piano bench as well as in the closets of my mind. Impressions and memories of all my travels while touring, were always a great source of inspiration, may it be in a new encounter, a laughter, a sigh, a smile, a sadness, a victory. Every little detail talks to my senses, a perfume, a color, a note, a landscape. With my compositions, I felt like breaking a silence and give another voice to the words and images of my life.”