Legendary guitarist, composer, songwriter, producer and record label mogul Jim O’Rourke returns to the Samuel Andreyev Podcast to discuss artists who have influenced him, why he is not thrilled with his album ‘Eureka’, and much more. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andr…

Dr Lola Salem graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, in 2015 (MA Musicology), the Sorbonne in 2018 (MA Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts) and the University of Oxford in 2023 (D.Phil. Musicology). Her academic research lies in the fields of 17-18th centuries opera, performers, patronage and material conditions, with a specific focus on …

Matthew Sheeran is a UK-based composer, violinist and arranger. His new album, arranging music by the American microtonal composer Easley Blackwood, has just been released and can be found at the link below. This interview was filmed on December 18, 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com…

Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London. This is his third appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. IAN PACE’S WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-s…

Martin Suckling was born in Glasgow in 1981. After spending his teenage years performing in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in ceilidh bands around Scotland, Suckling studied music at Clare College Cambridge and King’s College London. He was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University from 2003-5, undertook doctoral research at the Ro…

Luigi Gaggero is a conductor and cymbalom soloist. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE In Glow of Like Seclusion LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Podcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe Stirnweiss Support the s…

Gary Barwin is a novelist, composer, poet. This conversation was recorded 4 December 2023 via zoom. GARY BARWIN WEBSITE https://garybarwin.com/bio/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagr…

Jim O’Rourke is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, archivist, and former member of Sonic Youth. JIM O’ROURKE ON BANDCAMP https://steamroom.bandcamp.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twit…

I had an impromptu discussion with British composer Julian Anderson about harmony. It was recorded in the Hotel de l’Hermitage in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 11 October 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE In Glow of Like Seclusion LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, p…

**EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** Né en 1960, Jean-Luc Hervé fait ses études au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris avec Gérard Grisey. Il y obtient un premier prix de composition. Sa thèse de doctorat d’esthétique ainsi qu’une recherche menée à l’IRCAM seront l’occasion d’une réflexion théorique sur son travail de compositeur, sa…

Dr. Tyler Foster is a mathematician and composer working in machine learning. This conversation was recorded over Zoom on March 23rd, 2023. MUSIC EXCERPTS HEARD IN THIS PODCAST, IN ORDER: Voice Leading — Beatmatching Study This Brutal World HEAR TYLER FOSTER’S MUSIC https://soundcloud.com/tyler-foster SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAM…

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 E…

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 …

HELP US REACH OUR CROWDFUNDING GOAL! Wemakeit page 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 production: Marek Iwaszkiewicz Podcast artwork photograph © 2019 Phi…

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 disadvantage…

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 Micr…

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 PAC…

**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, i…

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…

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…

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 jun…

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 ‘M…

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…

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 disti…

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 …

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 scienc…

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 …

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) Publ…

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 anticipat…

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 C…

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 l…

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 perf…

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 Lett…

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…

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…

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 pla…

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 Oper…

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 Tils…

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 Carri…

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 …

In this episode, I took questions live from my YouTube subscribers. Thanks to everyone who participated. 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 Podcast artwork pho…

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 p…

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 composi…

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 Wagne…

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’…

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. ** SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube ch…

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 stu…

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 …

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 Engla…

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 c…