The Samuel Andreyev Podcast

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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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.

Excerpts from the CD included in this podcast (in order):
Harbour (2015) and Late Winter, for the left hand (2019).

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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), and leads the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (of which he is chief conductor since 2018). Luigi is also guest conductor of several European Orchestras and Ensembles and, at the head of his Ukho Ensemble, has recently conducted three sold-out opera productions at the National Opera of Ukraine.

In 2012 he founded the vocal ensemble La Dolce Maniera with whom he recorded 2 discs dedicated to Monteverdi and Gesualdo. Vittorio Ghielmi wrote: “these fresh interpretations, far away from any ‘museality’, remind closely of Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro and the Baroque sculpture, letting this music powerfully come to life again before our eyes”.

As a conductor, Luigi Gaggero has recorded monographic CDs devoted to Gervasoni (Winter & Winter), Hosokawa and Andreyev (Kairos), Solbiati (EMA Vinci Records), Monteverdi and Gesualdo (Stradivarius). As a cimbalom player he recorded works by Kurtág, Eötvös, Fedele, Francesconi, Gervasoni, Hosokawa, Kurtág, Lévinas and Solbiati (Audite, Aeon, Neos), as well as the  Háry János Suite by Kodály on blu-ray with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Luigi Gaggero is professor of cimbalom at the Conservatoire and at the Académie supérieure de musique in Strasbourg, where he also founded the Contemporary music ensemble of the Académie.

More about Luigi Gaggero:
http://www.luigigaggero.com/

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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 Balmer and Christopher Murray, Thomas Lacôte has devoted several years to important research on the works of Olivier Messiaen, leading to the publication of several articles in international journals (XXth Century Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society) and a book (Le modèle et l'invention: Olivier Messiaen et la technique de l'emprunt, Editions Symétrie, 2017).

In 2012, Thomas Lacôte was awarded the Del Duca prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts-Institut de France. In 2019 he received the Hervé Dugardin composition prize from the SACEM. He is artist in residence at the Royaumont Foundation, and a member of the musical committee of the Prince Pierre Foundation in Monaco.

Thomas has a new work being premiered in Paris on February 9th, 2020 in which he will participate as soloist. More information here.

More about Thomas Lacôte:
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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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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

More about Nick:
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Bandcamp site
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In this episode, Samuel Andreyev responds to a viewer’s question: how does a composer write music?

Watch the original YouTube video (now over 20,000 views!)

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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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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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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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