Eduardo Andrés Malachevsky
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina, Eduardo Andrés Malachevsky has had a unique and interesting career. As a young student of the flute, composition and conducting his musical and artistic future seemed bright and promising. However, at the age of 24 he chose instead to become a Cistercian (Trappist) monk and entered an austere abbey in the Pampas of Argentina. He lived a contemplative, monastic life for fourteen years, developing an intense appreciation for monastic liturgical music. He left the order in 1998 to develop and pursue his creative talent and conducting skills and has been met with great success. Mr. Malachevsky has won numerous international awards for his compositions and his work has been performed throughout the world, most notably in Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the United States, France, and Germany. He lives in Paris, France. Mr. Lee is also active as a jazz flutist.
FROM THE COMPOSER
" He Comes "
Cycle of Three Choral Songs to Poems of Rabindranath Tagore
I. EVER COMES / II. EVER COMING / III. RETURN TO HIM
"The central message of Tagore's poems I have chosen for this Cycle of three choral pieces can be expressed simply in two words: LONGING and PRESENCE; the longing for a Presence; the longing that springs from that mysterious Presence who feeds the longing and brings Himself nearer. "He comes," "He ever comes," "Thou are ever coming," ever and ever... "He"? "Thou"? "Who"? The Unnamed One, who, not having a name - being at the origin of all names - is and has been named in countless ways. He, in whom we are, from whom we come, and to whom we return: "Return to Him!" The music inspired by these poems is no more than a humble personal musical expression of that essential longing inherent to the human being, so beautifully expressed throughout the poet's verses - the secret longing for a "You," for a "Thou," who, steadying me, stretches me and recreates me." - Eduardo Andrés Malachevsky
