Samuel Andreyev (born Samuel Curnoe Andreeff; 15 April 1981) is a Canadian composer, singer-songwriter, poet and educator who has resided in France since 2003. As of 2021, he had completed about 30 works, nearly all of which have been recorded commercially. His YouTube channel, his videos, interviews and podcasts have been viewed extensively. He currently teaches at the

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and at the Strasbourg Center of the University of Syracuse.

Life and career

Andreyev was born and raised in Kincardine, Ontario, moving with his family to

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in 1988. There he enrolled in

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, studying

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and

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, as well as

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. Additionally, he experimented on his own, fascinated by rare instruments and the possibilities offered by recording technology. While living in Toronto, he recorded 8 albums of songs, ran a small publishing house devoted to experimental poetry, performed with a troupe of local musicians, and completed his first acknowledged composition, ''Le malheur adoucit les pierres'', a wind trio. He settled in Paris in 2003 to study composition, initially with

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, then with Frédéric Durieux at the

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. Shortly after graduating, he was named a member of the Académie de France à Madrid and offered a 1-year artistic residency at the Casa de Velázquez. Upon returning to France in 2013, he took up teaching positions, initially at the Conservatoire de Cambrai, and later at the Strasbourg Center of the University of Syracuse, and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. In the mid-2010s his work began to receive much wider attention, receiving major awards, including the Grand Prix du concours

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in 2012 for his composition ''Night Division''. He settled in Strasbourg in 2014. Starting in 2015, he embarked upon an ambitious project of making commercial recordings of all of his works. So far, 3 portrait CDs have been issued along with many individual works on various labels. In 2018, he was named a member of the music council of the Fondation Prince Pierre de

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Poetry

Also a poet and writer, Andreyev has published two collection of poems: ''Evidence'' was issued in 2009 by Quattro Books of Toronto; ''The Relativistic Empire'' was published by Bookthug in 2015. A book of conversations about his life and work, written in collaboration with the French composer and musicologist Etienne Kippelen, was scheduled to be issued in the fall of 2021.

Select discography

Compositions

*''Le malheur adoucit les pierres'' for bass flute, English horn and bassoon (2002) *''Music with no Edges'' for five instruments (2004) *''Passages'' for clarinet (2005) *''Stopping'' for two vibraphones (2006) *''Nets Move Slowly, Yet'' for ensemble (2006) *''Night Division'' for ensemble (2008–10) *''Vérifications'' for ensemble (2012) *''A propos du concert de la semaine dernière'' for piano and 7 instruments (2013–15) *''Strasbourg Quartet'' for flute, clarinet, percussion and cello (2014–15) *''Piano Pieces I-IV'' for piano (2011–16) *''Iridescent Notation'' cantata on texts by

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for soprano and ensemble (2012–17)

Albums

* ''Iridescent Notation'' (Vienna: Kairos Records, 2020) * ''Music with no Edges'' (Vienna: Kairos Records, 2018) * ''Moving'' (Paris: Klarthe Records, 2016) * ''Compositeurs de la Casa de Velázquez'' (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez 2013) * ''The Tubular West'' (Toronto: Torpor Vigil Records 2013) * ''Songs of Elsewhere'' (Toronto: Torpor Vigil Records 2002) * ''Swollows'' (Toronto: Torpor Vigil Records 2000)

Bibliography

* 2009 - Evidence * 2015 - The Relativistic Empire * 2018 - A Needy Chap

References

Sources

* ''Evidence'' (Toronto: Quattro Books, 2009)

External links

Samuel Andreyev's YouTube channel

Samuel Andreyev's personal web site

Impronta Edition (Mannheim), publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s music

Samuel Andreyev's biography
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