The Samuel Andreyev Podcast

Laurence Osborn (b. 1989) is a British composer currently based in London. His music has been commissioned and/or programmed by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Britten Sinfonia, The Riot Ensemble, Manchester Collective, 12 Ensemble, GBSR Duo, Ensemble Klang, and Ensemble 360, among others. He has also written for...

Robin Holloway is a British composer and professor at the University of Cambridge. This conversation was filmed at the composer’s home in Cambridge on 25 January 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta , publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Post...

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I spoke with four members of Ensemble Proton Bern immediately following a recording session for my composition ‘Sonata da Camera’ at the SRF Radiostudio in Zürich, Switzerland on 19 June 2022. We talked about our forthcoming album with conductor Luigi Gaggero, how our collaboration has evolved over the past 10 years, the advantages and disadvantages of CDs vs vinyl, the peculiar challenges involve...

Michael Finnissy is a British composer and pianist. This conversation was recorded via Zoom on 27 April 2022. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:12 The composition process 00:06:38 Serialism 00:10:05 MF’s critique of Grand narratives 00:13:30 On teaching 00:27:36 On originality 00:38:36 On being an outsider 00:48:13 Present-day obsessions 00:52:13:08 Microtonality 00:55:16:22 Instrumentation 01:00:47:13...

Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and professor at City, University of London. This is his second appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. The conversation was recorded in London, UK on 5 April 2022. IAN PACE WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/sample-page/ FOLLOW IAN PACE ON TWITTER https://twitter.com/ianpacemain?s=20&t=DUDr8v0n9oLmpj0SpOD40Q IAN PACE WRITINGS https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/view/...

**EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** Hugues Dufourt privilégie les continuités et les lentes transformations d'un discours musical qui n'est que rarement interrompu. Il conçoit des formes par évolution de masses et travaille sur les notions de seuils, d'oscillations, d'interférences et de processus orientés. Pionnier du mouvement spectral, il lui accorde toutefois une dé...

Born in Donetsk (Ukraine), Dina Pysarenko is a pianist, accompanist at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine, soloist of the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv and a laureate of the Levko Revutsky Award (2014) as well as the 6th International S. Prokofiev Competition (Saint-Petersburg, 2013). While still studying at the Donetsk Specialized Music School for gifted children, Dina was twice a laureate of...

00:00 Introduction 00:41 Pieces that changed my life 06:04 Thoughts on the ‘saturation’ movement 08:48 Music and other art forms 11:38 Is western music shallow? 14:59 Beauty and modernism 17:46 Are major keys happy and minor keys sad? 20:11 Music and the body 23:54 The techniques of today 26:40 Early modernist harmony 30:55 Finding your voice 32:03 What is good counterpoint? 34:05 Composition vs....

Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. His writing has been called some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by Publishers Weekly. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, and is a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until june 2010. He has published many books of poetry, not...

Alexander Goehr is a composer for whom the conventional labels of new music seem increasingly inadequate. A latent nonconformism is already suggested by the essential biographical facts. He was born in Berlin in 1932, son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. Still in his early twenties, he emerged as a key figure in the celebrated ‘Manchester School’ of post-war British composers. I...

Nuria Schoenberg-Nono was born in Barcelona in 1932 to parents Arnold and Gertrud Schoenberg. She grew up in Los Angeles, California, and settled to Europe in 1954, marrying the composer Luigi Nono. In 1993 she founded the Luigi Nono Archive, and today she is president of the Board of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre in Vienna. Her experience is unique, in that the has been close to two major 20th cen...

The music of Augusta Read Thomas has been performed all over the world by conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seiji Ozawa, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Christoph Eschenbach and many others. She is Vice President for Music at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other distinctions, and is a long-standing, exemplary citizen...

In 2020, the composer and musicologist Martin Iddon and the pianist Philip Thomas published a 400-page monograph outlining, in extraordinary detail, the genesis and the substance of one of John Cage ’s most enigmatic compositions: the Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58). In this episode, Martin Iddon reveals why this single work exerts such a powerful draw, 60 years after its premiere. EPISO...

Born in Toronto, Christian Bök focuses on the intersection of language and science in his work. His first book of poetry, Crystallography , was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. His book Eunoia , which won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002, is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. Bök has also created artificial languages for science fiction television. His most recent book is Th...

Julian Nott came to music relatively late. After studying Music and Politics and Economics at Oxford University, he worked for a management consultancy firm in the City for a number of  years. Finding that not entirely to his liking, he enrolled in the UK’s National Film And Television School, funding his studies by simultaneously working freelance for the Economist Publications. After film school...

In 2020, Edition Impronta published Samuel Andreyev’s second volume of solo piano pieces, n°s V—VIII. In this episode, he speaks about the genesis of this work, its aims, and presents each piece individually. The podcast includes recordings of each piece by Jana Luksts. MUSIC HEARD IN THIS EPISODE Samuel Andreyev, Piano Pieces V-VIII (2019-20) Publisher: Edition Impronta Performer: Jana Luksts SUP...

In 1972, Betsy Jolas (b. 1926) traveled to Indonesia with Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, Henri-Louis de la Grange, Maurice Fleuret and several others. While there, she encountered the Topeng dance, which, nearly 50 years later, inspired the composition of her 8th quartet, Topeng . This piece was written for the Arditti Quartet in 2019. In anticipation of her 95th birthday on 5 August 2021, she te...

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s passing in July 13, 1951, Samuel Andreyev speaks with his son Lawrence Adam (Larry) Schoenberg. They discuss what it was like having Arnold Schoenberg as a father; Larry’s thoughts on his father's artistic legacy; Schoenberg’s teaching philosophy; and the work of the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon...

Martin Keary: biography I'm the head of design at MuseScore, with 14 years of experience working on applications and games for IOS, Android, Windows, Hololens, Ubuntu Touch, Voice Assistant (Cortana), Xbox One and Playstation 3. I'm an active musician with a MMUS in composition from the Royal Conservatoire in Scotland. I regularly write music for live performances, films and video games....

John Moraitis is a musicologist, harpsichordist, and pianist currently residing in Athens. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Shorter College, a Master in Musicology from the University of Georgia in Athens, and a Ph. D. in Musicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main fields of interest are historical performance practice and twentieth-century modernism....

Matthew Ricketts (b. 1986, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer currently based in New York City. His music moves from extremes of presence and absence, from clamor to quietude, at once reticent and flamboyant. Matthew’s music has been called “lyrical, contrapuntal, rhythmically complex and highly nuanced” ( The American Academy of Arts and Letters ) and is noted for his “effervescent and at t...

Michele Zaccagnini studied clarinet at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, graduated cum laude with a bachelor in Economics at Universita’ La Sapienza in Rome. At Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts he graduated with a Ph. D. in Music Composition and Theory where he studied with Martin Boykan, Yu-Hui Chang and Eric Chasalow. Michele’s main area of theoretical research focuses on Alg...

Ermir Bejo , born in 1987 in Tirana Albania, is a contemporary classical and electronic music composer. Both within and apart from his music, Bejo draws significant influence from visual art, cinema, classic literature, mathematics, and philosophy. Bejo’s approach is grounded in the exploration of hierarchies and conflicts arising from the treatment of musical time as a non-linear concept . His mu...

Marco Fusi is a violinist/violist, and a passionate advocate for the music of our time. Among many collaborations with emerging and established composers, he has premiered works by Billone, Sciarrino, Eötvös, Cendo and Ferneyhough. Marco has performed with Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Beat Furrer, David Robertson, and frequently plays with leading contemporary ensembles including Kla...