Samuel Andreyev

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

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Life and career

Andreyev was born and raised in Kincardine, Ontario, moving with his family to Toronto in 1988. There he enrolled in The Royal Conservatory of Music, studying cello and oboe, as well as composition. 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, [1] performed with a troupe of local musicians, and completed his first acknowledged composition, Le malheur adoucit les pierres for wind trio.

He settled in Paris in 2003 to study composition, initially with Allain Gaussin, then with Frédéric Durieux at the Paris Conservatoire. 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.[ citation needed ]

In the mid-2010s his work began to receive much wider attention, receiving major awards, including the Grand Prix du concours Henri Dutilleux in 2012 for his composition Night Division. [2] [3]

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.[ citation needed ]

In 2018, he was named a member of the music council of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. In 2024, he became a French citizen. [4]

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. [5] [6] [7] 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.[ citation needed ]

Punditry and teaching

Andreyev has engaged in discussions on music and culture framed by conservative and reactionary ideas. He has appeared as a guest on Konstantin Kisin's TRIGGERnometry and Jordan Peterson's eponymous podcast. [8] [9]

In October 2023, Andreyev spoke at the Arc Forum, [10] organized by the privately owned Christian centre-right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. [11]

In addition to his teaching at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of Syracuse, Andrevey is inaugural faculty with the Peterson Academy, an online, for-profit school that claims to counter “idiot intellectual propaganda” and “woke nonsense,” [12] teaching a seminar on the history of Western music. [13]

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