Biography (short) Version Française / Deutsche Version
Samuel Andreyev was born in Kincardine (Ontario), Canada, in 1981. He is currently studying composition with Frédéric Durieux at the Paris Conservatory and oboe with Didier Pateau. From 2004-2006 he studied composition with Allain Gaussin and analysis with Vincent Decleire at the Conservatoire de Sevran. His music has been performed in Europe and North America by musicians such as Les Percussions de Strasbourg, L'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Massy, L'Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Ensemble Multilaterale, the Onyx Wind Quintet, Christopher Redgate, Vortex and Peter Stoll. In 2006 he was selected to participate in the composition course "Voix Nouvelles" at Royaumont, where he studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell and Francois Paris.
Biography (long)
Composer Samuel Andreyev was born in Kincardine (Ontario), Canada, in 1981. He began violin lessons at the age of five and enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 1992, where he studied cello, composition and oboe. In 2003 he moved to Paris, where he now lives. He studied composition with Allain Gaussin and Franck Bedrossian, analysis with Vincent Decleire and oboe with Pierre-Christophe Brilloit at the Conservatoire de Sevran from 2003-2005. In 2006 he was accepted, by unanimous decision of the jury, into the composition class of Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (Paris Conservatory). He is currently studying composition with Frédéric Durieux, analysis with Claude Ledoux and electroacoustic music with Luis Naon, Yann Geslin and Tom Mays at the Paris Conservatory, and oboe with Didier Pateau.
His compositions have been performed in Europe and North America by ensembles such as Les Percussions de Strasbourg, L'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Massy, L'Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Vortex, Multilaterale and the Onyx Wind Quintet, and by musicians such as Christopher Redgate, Béatrice Zawodnik, Jean-Philippe Wurtz and Peter Stoll. Recently he was comissioned to compose a new work to be premiered at the Archipel festival in Switzerland, which was performed by Béatrice Zawodnik in march 2007. In 2006 he was one of 15 international composers selected to participate in the Voix Nouvelles course at Royaumont, where he studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell and Francois Paris. Between 1995 and 2002 he recorded 9 collections of songs, three of which have been released on the Torpor Vigil label. The most recent of these, Songs of Elsewhere (2002), received positive reviews in the Canadian press as well as The Wire, and provided the impetus for a one-hour profile and interview with Bill Richardson, which was heard across Canada on CBC radio. From 1999 to 2002 he led the Toronto-based Trosper Ensemble, which gave concerts of his works at many venues in the Toronto area.
As a freelance oboist, he has a large repertoire which includes many key contemporary works by composers such as Holliger, Carter, Isang Yun, Gilbery Amy and others, and he currently performs with the Paris-based ensemble Polymorphose. In Toronto he performed with the North York Symphony, and the the Royal Conservatory Conducting Institute Orchestra. He performs on all the instruments of the oboe family, including heckelphone, on which instrument he is one of the world's few specialists.
Parallel to his musical activities, he is also active as a poet. From 1997 to 2003 he was the editor of The Expert Press, a Toronto-based small press focusing on innovative Canadian poetry. His writing has appeared in many small magazines and he has had collections published by Bookthug and LyricalMyrical.