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SAMUEL ANDREYEV (CA)

I try to write the music that I want most to hear. It doesn't exist elsewhere so I've got to compose it myself. I like music that requires active listening, music that is alive and mobile, that is exciting to listen to–even better would be music that is exciting just to think about listening to.
A lot of my music seeks to express "in-between" states, neither here nor there, perhaps dream-like. It's usually emotionally ambigious but hopefully intense nonetheless. I try to achieve this through combining mutually exclusive musical forces and by always keeping in mind the general poetic notion of the impossible object (such as a cuboid sphere).
I have a weakness for extremely rare instruments and sometimes score for them, or for unusual combinations of standard instruments. While this means that certain of my pieces will never be frequently performed, I feel that rarity as an aesthetic choice is entirely valid.

SAMUEL ANDREYEV was born in 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 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 François Paris. Recent projects include a piece commissioned by the Archipel Festival in Geneva and a large new work for winds, brass and percussion.

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