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Mar 17, 2023
Laurence Osborn, composer
*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 solo performers Sarah Dacey, Mahan Esfahani, Bartosz Glowacki, Zubin Kanga, Lore Lixenberg, Michael Petrov, and Agata Zubel. His music has been programmed throughout the UK, at venues such as The Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Royal Opera House, Symphony Hall (Birmingham), The Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, LSO St Luke's, St Martin- In-The-Fields, Milton Court, Wilton's Music Hall, Britten Studio (Aldeburgh), The National Portrait Gallery, The Holywell Music Room (Oxford), The Crucible Theatre (Sheffield), Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge), and at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (where he was an International Showcase Artist), St Magnus International Festival, Music in the Round Festival, and Ulverston International Music Festival.
Laurence Osborn’s song cycle Essential Relaxing Classical Hits was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2021. He won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2017, was runner up in the New Cobbett Prize for Composition (2014) and the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition (2013) and was shortlisted for the ICSM World Music Days (2018). Laurence has won student prizes for composition while studying at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, including the Adrian Cruft Prize for Composition and the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition. He has held positions in association with LSO Soundhub (2013-15), Nonclassical (2015-17), and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2017-18).
*SOUND EXERPTS, IN ORDER:*
1. *Coin Op Automata* for harpsichord and string quartet
performed by the Manchester Collective
2. *Essential Relaxing Classical Hits*, for amplified solo soprano and 6 players
performed by Agata Zubel and Ensemble Klang
3. *Absorber*, for solo piano and MIDI controller
performed by Zubin Kanga
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Feb 23, 2023
Robin Holloway, composer
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.
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Jul 6, 2022
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Jun 21, 2022
Ensemble Proton Bern
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 involved in performing contemporary repertoire, and more.
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Jan-Filip Ťupa, cellist
Coco Schwarz, pianist
Martin Bliggenstorfer, oboist
Richard Haynes, clarinet
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May 13, 2022
Michael Finnissy, composer
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 How MF works with pitch
01:19:09:16 Patreon question: Drawing inspiration from nature
01:22:14:07 Patreon question: New complexity
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May 1, 2022
Ian Pace, Round 2: Music in Higher Education
*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.
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Mar 31, 2022
La naissance de la musique spectrale : Hugues Dufourt
**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 définition plus large, cherchant à mettre en valeur l'instabilité que le timbre introduit dans l'orchestration. Sa musique repose sur une richesse de constellations sonores et harmoniques et s'appuie sur une dialectique du timbre et du temps. Il puise une partie de son inspiration dans l'art pictural, dont il retient essentiellement le rôle de la couleur, des matières et de la lumière (Dawn flight, quatuor à cordes créé en 2008 à Musica, Le Cyprès blanc et L'Origine du monde, créés à Musica 2004). Marqué par l'avant-garde française des années soixante, Hugues Dufourt participe aux activités de L'Itinéraire (1975-81) et fonde en 1977 le Collectif de Recherche Instrumentale et de Synthèse Sonore (CRISS) avec Alain Bancquart et Tristan Murail. Agrégé de Philosophie en 1967, il publie de nombreux écrits. Il est chargé de recherche (1973-85) puis directeur de recherche au CNRS (1985-2009) et crée en 1982 l'Unité Mixte de Recherche "Recherche Musicale" qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1995. Hugues Dufourt a reçu de nombreux prix, notamment en 2000 le Prix du Président de la République pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre, décerné par l'Académie Charles Cros. Ces dernières années, Hugues Dufourt a composé des oeuvres aux formations diverses, du piano seul (Tombeau de Debussy créé au Festival Musica 2018) au grand orchestre (Ur-Geräusch, créé en 2016 par l'Orchestre de la WDR, Les deux saules d'après Monet créé en 2020 à Vienne par l'Orchestre symphonique de la Radio), en passant par des petites formations (L'atelier rouge d'après Matisse, créé en 2020 à Varsovie par l'Ensemble Nikel) ou les percussions (Burning Bright, créé par les Percussions de Strasbourg au Festival Musica 2014). La Horde d'après Max Ernst, pour orchestre, commande du Lemanic Modern Ensemble et de Radio France sera créé au Festival Présences 2022.
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Mar 15, 2022
New Music in Ukraine: Dina Pysarenko
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 the International Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kyiv. She graduated with Honours from Sergey Prokofiev Donetsk State Music Academy in 2009, where she studied with Prof. Lidiya Adamenko. Eager to embrace various styles in her repertoire, Dina devotes particular attention to contemporary music: since 2006 she has premiered a number of pieces by living composers, such as Yevhen Petrychenko, Serhiy Piliutykov, Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin and Oleksiy Voytenko, performing at important Ukrainian festivals such as KyivMusicFest, GogolFEST, Donbas Modern Music Academy, etc.
Together with Ukho Ensemble Kyiv under the baton of Luigi Gaggero, she has given the Ukrainian premieres of several important pieces of the 20th and 21st centuries, including À propos du concert de la semaine dernière by Samuel Andreyev, ...quasi una fantasia... by György Kurtág, Kammerkonzert by Klaus-Steffen Mahnkopf, and the Piano concerto of György Ligeti. Dina participated in a conducting masterclass held by maestro Luigi Gaggero with the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, making her debut as a conduc- tor with Intégrales by Edgard Varèse (2016) and Epicycle by Iannis Xenakis (2018).
Since 2009, Dina Pysarenko has accompanied the class of Prof. Valeriy Ivko, one of the founders the of Ukrainian domra school. In the 2013/14 season she was accompanist at the Anatolii Solovyanenko Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. She has also participated in three opera productions staged in the National Opera of Ukraine by Ukho agency and directed by Luigi Gaggero: Limbus-Limbo by Stefano Gervasoni (2016), Pane, sale, sabbia by Carmine Emmanuele Cella (2017), and Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino (2018). This interview was recorded on March 9th, 2022.
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Mar 5, 2022
Q & A: How Can Composers Earn a Living?
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. tradition
36:47 Avant-garde composers and the listening experience
38:51 Will you make another album like The Tubular West?
42:23 What is my favourite tonal music of today?
43:25 Closing remarks
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Jan 27, 2022
Kenneth Goldsmith, poet
*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, notably Fidget, Soliloquy, Day, and his American trilogy.
He is the editor of I’ll Be Your Mirror, the selected Andy Warhol interviews, which is the basis for an opera, Trans-Warhol, that premiered in Geneva in 2007. He has published three books of essays, including Against Expression, Uncreative Writing, Wasting Time on the Internet, and most recently, Duchamp is my Lawyer. In 2013, he was appointed the first Poet Laureat of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Dec 29, 2021
Alexander Goehr, composer
*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. In 1955-56 he joined Oliver Messiaen’s masterclass in Paris. Thereafter, he worked as a BBC producer and broadcaster, and was a director of the Music Theatre Ensemble. In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Music at Leeds University, and was subsequently appointed to the chair at Cambridge in 1976. Background apart, however, the source of Goehr’s heterogeneous yet single-minded development lies in a questing musical intelligence and a special gift for elaboration, transformation and synthesis. The artistic imperative is for a step-by-step progression, wherever it might lead, from what…
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Dec 20, 2021
Nuria Schoenberg-Nono: The Composers in my Life
*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 century composers, both of whom can be said to have had a lasting impact on the music of our time.
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Dec 14, 2021
Augusta Read Thomas, composer
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 of the profession at large supporting the work of others. Her music is published by G Schirmer and, since 2016, by Nimbus Music Publishing. Her music has been featured on nearly 100 commercial CDs. Since 2013, Nimbus Records has been recording her complete works. She is currently a University Professor of Composition in Music at The University of Chicago.
Thomas played piano as a young child, starting private lessons at age four. In third grade, she took up the trumpet and played for 14 years, attending Northwestern University as a trumpet performance major. She played trumpet in brass qui…
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Nov 1, 2021
Martin Iddon: The Musical Riddles of John Cage
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.
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Oct 28, 2021
Christian Bök and the Aesthetics of Impossibility
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 The Xenotext (Book One). He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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Sep 9, 2021
Julian Nott: How to be a Film Composer
*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, Julian worked as an independent documentary film producer, making films for Channel Four Television, Arte Channel and WGBH Boston. Along the way he qualified as a (non-practising) barrister.
At film school, Julian met the animator Nick Park, writing the music for his early Wallace and Gromit films. When these films became such a huge success, the offers starting come in and Julian switched to film scoring full time. His work still includes much animation (“Wallace and Gromit in the The Curse of the Wererabbit”, “Peppa Pig”, “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”, “The Hungry Ca…
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Aug 23, 2021
In the Composer's Atelier
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
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Jul 29, 2021
Betsy Jolas: My Trip to Bali with Xenakis and Takemitsu
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 tells us what happened on that trip, what it was like traveling with Takemitsu and Xenakis, and why it is that Bali left such an indelible imprint on her music.
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Betsy Jolas, *Topeng* for string quartet (2019)
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Jul 19, 2021
Larry Schoenberg: Arnold Schoenberg, My Father
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.
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Jul 8, 2021
Martin Keary (Tantacrul): composer, designer, polymath
*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.
I also run a YouTube channel called Tantacrul, where I discuss various topics related to music and design. Based on the growing popularity of this channel, I occasionally get invited to speak at conferences too. My favourite topics to discuss are music philosophy, visual music (an archaic discipline from the early 20th century) and design methodology.
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Jul 2, 2021
John Moraitis: harpsichordist and musicologist
*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. He has taught and conducted master classes in the United States, Austria, and Greece.
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J. S. Bach, Invention n° 2 in C minor
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Les tendres plaintes
Louis Couperin, La petite pince-sans-rire
John Moraitis, harpsichord
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Jun 22, 2021
Matthew Ricketts, composer
*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 times prickly sounds,” “hypnotically churning exploration of melody” (ICareIfYouListen) as well as its “tart harmonies and perky sputterings” (The New York Times). He is a 2020 Gaudeamus Finalist and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow.
In 2018 Ricketts’ multilingual opera Chaakapesh: The Trickster’s Quest (written in collaboration with renowned Cree playwright Tomson Highway) opened the Montreal Symphony’s 84th season to great critical acclaim and went on to tour Indigenous communities throughout Québec.
Matthew is the recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri (2020/2021)…
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May 28, 2021
Michele Zaccagnini: the 'Adorno Rule'
*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 Algorithmic Composition; he published a paper about Aldo Clementi compositional process in Perspectives of New Music, a description of one of his own compositional processes in The OM Composer’s Book n.3 (published by Ircam) and a paper about the Nonlinear Sequencer for the SEAMUS Conference in 2020 which is also available as a tool package in MaxMsp’s Package Manager. His research on has been presented at University of Plymouth within the First International Workshop of Brain Computer Music Interface, at the Ircam Forum Conference in Sao Paulo, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol…
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May 18, 2021
Ermir Bejo: the Scorefollower project
*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 music is performed in concert halls and music festivals by a growing roster of internationally acclaimed performers and ensembles such as Ums ‘n Jip, Nova, Amorsima Trio, Duo Chromatica, Irvine Arditti, Malgorzata Walentynowicz, Elizabeth McNutt, Redi Llupa, Alexander Richards, Yumi Suehiro, and Juan Sebastian Delgado among others.
Bejo holds degrees in music composition from the University of North Texas (PhD, 2017), University of Louisville (MM, 2013), and Skidmore College (BA, 2010). He has additionally participated in numerous lessons and masterclasses with composers such as Chaya Czern…
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May 3, 2021
Marco Fusi: The Mystery of Scelsi
*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 Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Meitar Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Linea, Interface (Frankfurt), Phoenix (Basel) and Handwerk (Köln); Marco has recorded several solo albums, published by Kairos, Stradivarius, Col Legno, Da Vinci, Geiger Grammofon.
Marco also plays viola d’amore, commissioning new pieces and collaborating with composers to promote and expand existing repertoire for the instrument.
A strong advocate and educator of contemporary music, he lectures and workshops at Columbia University, University of California – Berkeley, Basel Musikhochschule, New York University,…
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Apr 14, 2021
Linda Catlin Smith, composer
*Linda Catlin Smith* grew up in New York and lives in Toronto. She studied music in NY, and at the University of Victoria (Canada). Her music has been performed and/or recorded by: BBC Scottish Orchestra, Exaudi, Tafelmusik, Other Minds Festival, California Ear Unit, Kitchener-Waterloo, Victoria and Vancouver Symphonies, Arraymusic, Tapestry New Opera, Gryphon Trio, Via Salzburg, Evergreen Club Gamelan, Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver New Music, and the Del Sol, Penderecki, and Bozzini quartets, among many others; she has been performed by many notable soloists, including Eve Egoyan, Elinor Frey, Philip Thomas, Colin Tilney, Vivienne Spiteri, and Jamie Parker. Â She has been supported in her work by the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Foundation, K.M. Hunter Award, Banff Centre, SOCAN Foundation and Toronto Arts Council; in 2005 her work Garland (for Tafelmusik) was awarded Canada’s prestigious Jules Léger Prize. In addition to her work as an independent composer,…
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Mar 19, 2021
Why You Need Carl Ruggles in Your Life
*Carl Ruggles* (1876-1971) lived to the age of 95, but published only 8 works in his lifetime — less than an hour of music. In this podcast, I present an overview of this enigmatic composer, as well as an analysis of *Lilacs*, the central movement of *Men and Mountains*, for orchestra (1924).
This episode begins with a recording of *Lilacs* by Michael Tilson Thomas, conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Mar 14, 2021
Alexander Sigman, composer
With a unique background in music composition + technology, cognitive science, and data science, *Alexander Sigman* has been active internationally as an interdisciplinary composer, performer, researcher, software engineer, and educator.
His compositions have been featured on a number of commercial releases, including portrait recordings on the Carrier and New Focus labels. Sigman has published and presented extensively on a broad range of research topics, including music information retrieval, innovative auditory warning design, technical and aesthetic aspects of robot opera, and approaches to creative audiovisual media integration.
Throughout his career, he has held diverse leadership roles, which have ranged founding faculty member and Music program director of the International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA) of Yamanashi Gakuin University in Kofu, Japan, to Artistic Co-Director of the Menlo-Atherton Academy of Contemporary Music (MAACM), an arts education non-profit offering conc…
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Feb 19, 2021
Brian Ferneyhough interview
*Brian Ferneyhough* is widely recognized as one of today's foremost living composers. Since the mid-1970s, when he first gained widespread international recognition, his music has earned him an enviable reputation as one of the most influential creative personalities and significant musical thinkers on the contemporary scene. Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England, in 1943 and received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 1968 he was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies in Amsterdam with Ton de Leeuw, and the following year obtained a scholarship to study with Klaus Huber at the Basel Conservatoire. Following Ferneyhough’s move to mainland Europe, his music began to receive much wider recognition. The Gaudeamus Composers’ Competition in the Netherlands awarded Ferneyhough prizes in three successive years (1968-70) for his Sonatas for String Quartet, Epicycle and Missa Brevis…
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Jan 28, 2021
Ask Me Anything!
In this episode, I took questions live from my YouTube subscribers. Thanks to everyone who participated.
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Jan 7, 2021
Colin Matthews and Julian Anderson: a conversation among composers
In this episode I present a 3-way conversation between English composers *Colin Matthews*, *Julian Anderson* and myself.
*Colin Matthews* was born in London in 1946. He studied with Arnold Whittall and Nicholas Maw; in the 1970s he was assistant to Benjamin Britten, and worked for many years with Imogen Holst. His collaboration with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony lasted from 1963 until its publication in 1975. Over four decades his music has ranged from solo piano music through five string quartets and many ensemble and orchestral works. He was Associate Composer with the London Symphony Orchestra between 1992 and 1999, and Composer-in-Association with the Hallé from 2001-10, now their Composer Emeritus.
Colin Matthews’ music is published by Faber Music.
*Julian Anderson* is one of the most talented composers of his generation. Born in London in 1967, he studied with John Lambert, Alexander Goehr and Tristan Murail and first came to prominenc…
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Dec 18, 2020
Studying composition in 2020
In this episode, I spoke with three composition students about the musical and professional landscape they are about to graduate into: *Jonty Watt*, of Oxford, England; *Ben Schweitzer*, of the University of Massachussetts Amherst, and *Thomas McGee*, of Williams College. All three have one thing in common: they have all worked with me as private composition students over Skype, and though I have worked with some of them for years, we have never met in person. They are candid about the challenges they are facing, as well as some of the ways in which the world of composition seems to be evolving.
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Dec 11, 2020
Richard Haynes: Introducing the clarinet d'amore
Clarinetist *Richard Haynes* performs music spanning the 18th to 21st centuries all over the world in a multitude of contexts. During the course of undergraduate study at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and further study at the University of Arts Bern his teachers included Brian Catchlove, Paul Dean, Ernesto Molinari, Diana Tolmie, Donna Wagner-Molinari and Floyd Williams.
Since his solo debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17 performing the Clarinet Concerto by John Veale, Richard Haynes has performed further concerti by Copland, Mozart, Rankine, Smetanin, Westlake and Xenakis to acclaim, won the title of Australia's Young Performer of the Year and the Australian Art Music Award for Performance of the Year and has received invitations to the academies of Acanthes, Bang on a Can, Darmstadt, Ensemble Modern, impuls and Lucerne Festival. Richard Haynes has maintained regular concert activity in Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand over the last 1…
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Nov 30, 2020
Ian Pace: pianist and musicologist
*Ian Pace* is a pianist of long-established reputation, specialising in the farthest reaches of musical modernism and transcendental virtuosity, as well as a writer and musicologist focusing on issues of performance, music and society and the avant-garde. He was born in Hartlepool, England in 1968, and studied at Chetham’s School of Music, The Queen’s College, Oxford and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher, and a major influence upon his work, was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor, a student of Bartók.
He has played in many countries, recorded over 40 CDs, and given over 300 world premieres. He is Head of the Department of Music at City, University of London, where he has worked since 2010, having previously worked at Southampton University and Dartington College of the Arts.
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Oct 27, 2020
On Extended Techniques
In this episode, Samuel Andreyev presents a short introduction to the world of 'extended techniques', those unconventional ways of playing musical instruments that have become an almost ubiquitous feature of contemporary composition.
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Oct 2, 2020
Andy Creeggan, composer and erstwhile pop star
The Canadian composer, pianist and percussionist *Andrew (Andy) Creeggan* is equally at home in the worlds of classical composition and pop music. A member of the wildly successful Canadian band Barenaked Ladies from 1989 to 1995, he experienced fame early in life. Deciding that being a member of a band was not for him in the long run, he left to study composition at Montréal's McGill University. Since then, he has recorded and performed in The Brothers Creeggan, a band formed with his brother Jim Creeggan, and released three CDs of his compositions: Andiwork I, II and III (order from Bongo Beat Records). In addition, he has composed chamber music and worked as an arranger.
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• Viola n° 5 (from Andiwork II)
• Tongue A (from Andiwork III)
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Aug 24, 2020
Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo): the making of Trout Mask Replica
*Bill Harkleroad* was the longest-serving guitarist of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, playing on such essential recordings as *Trout Mask Replica*, *Lick My Decals Off, Baby* and *Clear Spot*. His significant artistic and practical contributions to these works have largely gone unacknowledged. Bill subsequently formed the band Mallard, released masterful solo recordings including 2001's* We Saw a Bozo Under the Sea*, authored the book *Lunar Notes*, and taught extensively. He can be contacted for lessons *here*.
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Aug 14, 2020
Anthony Etherin: From Punk to Palindromes
*Anthony Etherin* is a formalist poet, a publisher, and a musician. He tweets poetry @Anthony_Etherin and archives his published works online at anthonyetherin.wordpress.com. He founded Penteract Press and he invented the aelindrome. He hosts a (neglected, but soon to be revised) YouTube channel. He lives in the United Kingdom, on the border of England and Wales.
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Jul 26, 2020
The Labyrinthine Worlds of Chris Dench
*Chris Dench* was born in London in 1953. After periods living in Tuscany and West Berlin, the latter as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, he finally arrived to settle in Australia; he became an Australian citizen in 1992.
He has had works commissioned by ensembles and individuals on three continents and is particularly recognized as a composer for solo woodwind instruments, having composed fourteen pieces for the genre at last count. He has enjoyed a close relationship with Australia's ELISION ensemble for over fifteen years; he has also had fruitful collaborations with other musicians, including, in the last few years, Kathleen Gallagher, Mark Knoop, Geoffrey Morris, Peter Neville, Marilyn Nonken, Michael Norsworthy, Carl Rosman, and the Libra ensemble.
His works have enjoyed extensive performances, recordings, and broadcasts in Europe, Australia, North America, and Asia, including the Huddersfield Festival, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, Music of Changes in…
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Jul 22, 2020
Jonathan Bell: From Ars Subtilior to Artificial Intelligence
The music of Franco-British composer *Jonathan Bell* is influenced by Franco-Flemish polyphony, American minimalism (Morton Feldman), and spectral music. He graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with 4 prizes, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Doctorate in Musical Composition). Since 2007, he has collaborated intensely with the vocal ensemble De Caelis, which produces his music in numerous festivals (Île-de-France, European church music festival…), France Musique, and in collaboration with other ensembles (Links ensemble, choirs of several cathedrals). In Germany, he has received commissions from the Zafraan ensemble (Berlin) and SKAM (Stuttgart). In 2014-16, he followed a two-year IRCAM residency, where he developed the SmartVox web application, dedicated to the interpretation of computer-assisted speech polyphony. Since September 2017 he has been a lecturer in music at Aix-Marseille University and researcher at PRISM-lab-CNRS. In 2018, he was named a resident at the Ca…
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May 27, 2020
Art Tripp’s journey from Stockhausen to Zappa
Percussionist and drummer Art Tripp talks with composer Samuel Andreyev in a wide-ranging interview about his fascinating career working with John Cage, Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), Robert Austin Boudreau, and many others. He also discusses meeting such luminaries as Morton Feldman, and performing avant-garde music by Stockhausen and others in the 1960s. His important contributions to albums such as Uncle Meat and Lick My Decals off Baby are covered in detail.
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May 14, 2020
Questions and Answers
This episode reproduces the audio from my May 10th, 2020 Livestream Q&A on YouTube. Viewers typed their questions into a chat window and I answered them in real time. Due to the large volume of questions received, and my inability to answer even a small fraction of them, I am considering making this a weekly feature of my channel.
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Apr 11, 2020
Cheryl Duvall, pianist
Toronto-based pianist *Cheryl Duvall* has established herself as one of Canada’s foremost contemporary music interpreters. A dynamic soloist and in-demand collaborator, Duvall has immersed herself in a wide variety of compositional aesthetics and collaborative endeavours.
In 2012, she co-founded the “adventurous and smartly programmed” (Musicworks Magazine) chamber group Thin Edge New Music Collective, commissioning over 70 works, mounting multidisciplinary productions, touring worldwide, and collaborating with leading artists including Sarah Hennies, Linda Catlin Smith, and Ensemble Paramirabo.
She has also worked with the likes of choreographer Peggy Baker, cellist Paul Pulford, film composer Darren Fung, and Essential Opera, and is currently commissioning new solo repertoire from several Canadian composers.
Her new CD, *Harbour* (Red Shift Records) is devoted to the complete solo piano music of Canadian composer Anna Höstman. Order it here.
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Mar 28, 2020
Conductor Luigi Gaggero
*Luigi Gaggero* has been performing as cimbalom and percussion player and as a conductor at important concert halls and festivals all over Europe, USA, and China. With an endless passion for Medieval painting; Dante and Cavalcanti; the cinema of Tarkovsky and Tarr; Bach, Mozart and Kurtág; Heidegger and Nietzsche - Luigi is very sensitive to artists who express the Transcendental in art and therefore prioritizes, as an interpreter, a phenomenological approach to both classical and contemporary music. His interpretations are based on the empathic encounter between interpreter, composer and audience. This results in moving, colorful interpretations, where the classical repertoire gets colored with the typical freedom of interpretation of contemporary music, which, in turn, despite its complexity, abandons itself to the sweep of ‘classical’ phrasing.
This is also the spirit in which Luigi conducts the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv (which he co-founded as artistic and musical director in 2015),…
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Jan 31, 2020
Episode 18: Composer - organist Thomas Lacôte
*Thomas Lacôte* is organiste titulaire at the Eglise de la Trinité in Paris, a post that Olivier Messiaen held for 60 years. He worked at the Paris Conservatory for six years as the assistant of Michaël Levinas, before being named professor of analysis in 2014. He was educated at this institution, receiving five first prizes with distinction between 2002 and 2006. His manifold musical activities bring together composition, improvisation, performance, teaching and research. His cycle Etudes pour orgue (2006–2015) presents a new approach to the instrument and its sonority. In 2013, his first solo CD entitled The Fifth Hammer was recorded at the Eglise de la Trinité, and released by Hortus.
He is regularly invited for recitals, master classes and lectures by many international institutions, including The Royal College of Organists, Eastman School of Music, Mozarteum Salzburg, Gothenburg Music Academy, Haarlem Organ Academy, Bologna Conservatorio, etc. Along with musicologists Yves…
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Jan 12, 2020
Episode 17: Stravinsky's late period explained
Samuel Andreyev presents an overview of Stravinsky's late style, beginning with the pivotal work Agon, and continuing through Threni, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, and Variations Aldous Huxley in Memoriam.
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Dec 29, 2019
Episode 16: Nick Storring's Haunting Soundworlds
*Nick Storring* is a Toronto-based composer, writer, musician and curator. His extensive worklist includes both instrumental chamber music and studio creations that he playfully refers to as 'solorchestral' music. In this episode, Nick talks with Samuel Andreyev about his influences, his musical philosophy and the inspiration behind some of his pieces.
Nick has an LP forthcoming in early 2020 from Orange Milk Records, titled 'My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell'. More information here.
Pieces excerpted in the podcast (in order), with links to Soundcloud:
Senesce for string quartet
Hypnic Jerk for ensemble
Quillow for ensemble
Byland for solo piano
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Dec 1, 2019
Episode 15: How does a Composer Write Music?
In this episode, Samuel Andreyev responds to a viewer’s question: how does a composer write music?
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Nov 16, 2019
Episode 14: Making Sense of New Music with Dan Albertson
In this episode, Samuel Andreyev talks with *Dan Albertson*, music writer, critic, translator and creator of Composers21.com. They discuss the state of new music in the world today, both aesthetically and in terms of its institutions; and the challenges and opportunities facing young composers in the 21st century. See below for Dan's recommendations of who to follow, as referenced in the podcast.
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Nov 3, 2019
Episode 13: Chicago Lecture
On 10 October 2017, I presented a lecture on my work at the University of Chicago. This lecture deals, apart from general aesthetic issues specific to my compositions, with the pieces Bern Trio for oboe d’amore, viola and harp, and Midnight Audition for solo viola. The lecture is followed by questions from the students in attendance.
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Oct 20, 2019
Episode 12: Jeff Cotton ('Antennae Jimmy Semens') on the making of Trout Mask Replica
In this episode, guitarist Jeff Cotton (known as 'Antennae Jimmy Semens') talks for the first time ever in public about his experience working with Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band on the albums Strictly Personal, Mirror Man and of course, Trout Mask Replica.
Famously publicity-shy, Jeff granted me the honour of this first ever interview, filling in crucial details of his story, and providing a new perspective on the making of some of the most beguiling albums ever recorded. He also discusses his subsequent musical projects, and talks about where he is at today.
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Oct 12, 2019
Episode 11: A conversation with Franck Bedrossian
French composer Franck Bedrossian speaks with Samuel Andreyev about his work, which is often associated with saturation music. He talks about his brief studies under Gérard Grisey, interrupted tragically by the latter's untimely death in 1998; as well as the formation of his radical aesthetic, the importance of electronics to his work, the influence of popular music, and the general situation of contemporary aesthetics today.
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Jul 14, 2019
Episode 10: A conversation with composer Julian Anderson
British composer Julian Anderson talks to Samuel Andreyev about his work, the avant garde, composition today and spectralism, among other topics.
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Khorovod for ensemble
Heaven is Shy of Earth for chorus and orchestra
Fantasias for orchestra
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Jun 29, 2019
Episode 9: Arnold Schoenberg, a Concise Introduction
Composer Samuel Andreyev presents a concise introduction to the work of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), one of the most controversial composers of the modern period.
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Jun 16, 2019
Episode 8: Mark Boston ('Rockette Morton') on the making of Trout Mask Replica
Composer Samuel Andreyev talks with bassist Mark Boston ('Rockette Morton') about his work with the Magic Band on Trout Mask Replica and other Captain Beefheart albums, as well as his involvement with the band Mallard, and his solo work.
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Jun 2, 2019
Episode 7: Samuel Andreyev in conversation with Paul Steenhuisen
I was a guest on the May 21st episode of composer Paul Steenhuisen's podcast, Soundlab. Paul kindly allowed me to repost our discussion here. For those who are not familiar with Paul's excellent podcast, I urge you to subscribe — there are links below.
We discussed my compositional background and aesthetics, and talked in some depth about my cantata, Iridescent Notation. The occasion was the work's Canadian premiere in Toronto on May 26th, 2019 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre. Maeve Palmer sang the demanding soprano part, and Robert Aitken conducted the New Music Concerts ensemble.
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May 19, 2019
Episode 6: Betsy Jolas interview
Betsy Jolas is one of the most significant composers of her generation, and remains a vital force in contemporary European music. Now in her 90s, she continues to create a steady stream of important new works. Jolas’s substantial catalogue is known for its subtle lyricism, depth, and refinement; yet it is also informed by a staggering erudition, and highly personal view of the history of music. The daughter of Eugène and Maria Jolas, publishers of the influential literary magazine Transition, she was close to many key modernist figures — painters, writers, musicians— throughout the 20th century: James Joyce (whom she knew as a girl), Edgard Varèse, Henri Dutilleux, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joan Mitchell and many others, some of whom are mentioned in this interview.
We freely discussed the following topics:
• Her recent collaboration with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic
• Her studies with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messaien
• Postwar musical life in…
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May 5, 2019
Episode 5: Adam Neely interview
Adam Neely has a hugely successful YouTube channel devoted to music theory. In this episode, Adam and Samuel Andreyev discuss the role of today's social media and communications technologies in the world of music. They also talk about why the Casio Rapman is so important.
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Apr 21, 2019
Episode 4: Van Dyke Parks interview
Van Dyke Parks' music is situated at the crossroads of vernacular and art music. He has pursued his rich and utterly original musical vision over the course of an extraordinary career that now spans over 60 years. Samuel Andreyev interviews Van Dyke about his career and musical philosophy, as well as the fertile meeting of vernacular and art music.
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Apr 7, 2019
Episode 3: How can composers earn a living?
In this episode, Samuel Andreyev responds to a YouTube viewer's question: how can contemporary composers (and other artists) earn a living? He offers some practical advice as a response to this difficult, and perpetual problem.
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Mar 23, 2019
Episode 2: John French ('Drumbo') on the making of Trout Mask Replica
On April 28, 2017, I took a break from lecturing at UC Berkeley, California, and sat down for an extended discussion with drummer, arranger, composer and singer, John 'Drumbo' French. I wanted to understand the strange, unique and complex working process that led to the creation of the legendary 1969 album, Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. A great deal of misinformation, exaggerations and superficial comments have obscured the truth for far too long. No one on the planet knows more about this music and was more intimately involved in its creation than John French, and what he had to say is of great historic interest. Thank you to John for agreeing to this discussion.
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Mar 10, 2019
Episode 1: How I solved a compositional problem
In this episode, Samuel Andreyev presents a lecture at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. The lecture deals with how he solved a compositional problem, as well as the challenge of integrating timbre into the language of contemporary music.
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