New York Metropolis pianist composes piece for Kelowna artist’s portray

A pianist based mostly in New York Metropolis carried out a bit in live performance that he composed after coming throughout an summary portray created by a Kelowna lady.
Debby Merkel obtained an Instagram message from Margin Alexander in November saying he beloved her portray, titled ‘Seaside.’
Alexander invited Merkel to ship him a picture of her portray together with a brief bio and a photograph of herself to be featured in live performance.
“In fact my first thought was, ‘Is that this actual? Is that this a rip-off?’” she advised KelownaNow.
After some Googling, Merkel bought in contact with an artist in Spain who had been featured in one among Alexander’s prior live shows.
Inside an hour, the artist responded by saying, “He’s for actual.”
On the night of Dec. 1, 2022, Merkel watched Alexander critique her portray and proceed to play the piece he composed particularly for her artwork.
“This portray evokes a lot music out of me,” Alexander expressed to the viewers. “It’s an excellent work.”
As he performed, the picture of Seaside was projected onto the wall, together with Merkel’s {photograph}.
“It was simply lovely, completely lovely,” she mentioned.
Alexander travels around the globe performing compositions he writes for work, that includes roughly 10 at a time.
“Mainly, he sees the portray and it stirs one thing in him, and it’s actually fascinating as a result of it’s virtually like when he speaks, he’s intuitively feeling in that second what that portray means to you,” Merkel defined.
“It’s fairly unimaginable.”
The Kelowna lady additionally mentioned Alexander chooses completely different feelings for every artwork piece.
“It isn’t only a inventory critique concerning the colors, it’s all concerning the feeling and sense of feelings.”
The live performance just isn’t the one place Merkel’s artwork has been featured.
Till the tip of February, Merkel’s work are being showcased in an exhibition on the Innovation Centre.
Moreover, Merkel has wearable artwork accessible on-line.
Merkel is a part of the Federation of Canadian Artists, the Kelowna Palette Membership and The Edge Collective.
For extra details about the Kelowna summary artist, go to DebbyMerkel.com.