Explore every episode of the podcast The Samuel Andreyev Podcast
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| Was modernism a mistake? October 2026 Q&A | 23 Oct 2026 | 00:17:58 | |
I answered questions from viewers. Recorded 21 October 2026. | |||
| Lukas Ligeti: Ugandan Court Music Changed My Life! | 07 Sep 2026 | 02:12:23 | |
Lukas Ligeti joined me in my Kehl studio for a wide-ranging conversation about his life, work, and new album, Notebook. | |||
| Pierre d'Alancaisez: The Crisis in Contemporary Art | 14 Aug 2026 | 01:54:52 | |
Pierre d’Alancaisez is a critic, curator, and researcher working with the multiple politics of the arts. His writing has appeared in outlets such as The Critic, ArtReview, The Spectator, and Compact. In 2024, he co-founded Verdurin, a space for experimentation in aesthetics, learning, and the difficult conversations which drive today’s culture. Pierre previously directed waterside contemporary, a gallery that tested social and political questions in the art market. He curated exhibitions with artists who included Turner Prize nominee Oreet Ashery and has commissioned works with artists such as Mirza and Butler which traveled to Artes Mundi and Sydney Biennale. Having trained in the sciences before coming to artistic practice, Pierre also worked on cultural exchange and engagement strategies in higher education and the charity sector and has held senior positions in publishing and financial services. | |||
| Zoot Horn Rollo: Why I Teach Online | 15 Jul 2026 | 01:23:27 | |
Samuel Andreyev sits down with Bill Harkleroad, AKA Zoot Horn Rollo, for a discussion of online teaching, and why Bill has chosen to go that route. | |||
| Anthony Etherin: From Punk Poet to Experimental Composer | 11 Dec 2025 | 01:39:00 | |
Composer Samuel Andreyev and poet Anthony Etherin discuss Anthony’s work, transcending extreme literary constraints to produce exceptionally beautiful poems. | |||
| Jean Sibelius’ 7th Symphony: An Inscrutable Labyrinth | 30 Jun 2025 | 00:20:34 | |
Composer Samuel Andreyev presents an overview of Jean Sibelius’ most enigmatic symphonic creation. == | |||
| A History of the Musical Avant Garde, with James Ingram | 27 May 2025 | 01:33:24 | |
Composers Samuel Andreyev and James Ingram discuss the tradition and history of avant garde notation in music. == | |||
| Jonathan Castellino: The Art of Abandoned Places | 02 May 2025 | 01:02:21 | |
Photographer Jonathan Castellino joins Samuel Andreyev for a wide-ranging discussion about their common hometown of Toronto, its urban fabric, the art of abandoned and forbidden places, and contemporary urban aesthetics. | |||
| Christian Bök and the Xenotext | 24 Apr 2025 | 01:42:44 | |
Poet Christian Bök joins Samuel Andreyev for a discussion about his recently completed, death-defying, 25-year project, The Xenotext. Filmed February 6th, 2025. | |||
| Lola Salem: An Optimistic Vision for Music | 04 Apr 2025 | 01:23:15 | |
Dr. Lola Salem joins Samuel Andreyev for a discussion about the current state of the arts, especially music, and what a beautiful vision for the future might look like. == | |||
| Boulez at 100: Does He Still Matter? | 09 Mar 2025 | 00:33:00 | |
Composer Samuel Andreyev talks about Pierre Boulez, his influence, his public persona, and the state of his musical legacy. | |||
| James Ingram: Life with Stockhausen | 18 Dec 2024 | 01:10:17 | |
James Ingram is a composer, music engraver and author. He lived and worked with Stockhausen for 28 years. Recorded December 3rd, 2024. | |||
| August 2024 Q&A | 13 Sep 2024 | 00:37:43 | |
Samuel Andreye answers viewer’s questions. Recorded July 27, 2024. | |||
| John Densmore: My Life with The Doors | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:46:52 | |
Composer Samuel Andreyev interviews drummer, actor and author John Densmore of The Doors. | |||
| Jean-François Spricigo: Art as a Way of Life | 24 Jul 2024 | 01:17:14 | |
Composer Samuel Andreyev interviews Belgian photographer and multidisciplinary artist Jean-François Spricigo. | |||
| Answering Questions from Listeners | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:32:27 | |
Samuel Andreyev answers viewer’s questions in this Q&A session. | |||
| Curt Jaimungal: A Mathematical Physicist and Composer Walk into a Bar.. | 17 May 2024 | 01:20:39 | |
A conversation between composer Samuel Andreyev and mathematical physicist Curt Jaimungal. Curt produces the wildly popular podcast Theories of Everything (TOE). The conversation was recorded on March 25th, 2024. | |||
| Rafael Toral: Ambient Music and its History | 10 May 2024 | 01:26:15 | |
This conversation between composers Rafael Toral and Samuel Andreyev was conducted on 25 March 2024. | |||
| Jim O’Rourke & Samuel Andreyev: Round Two! | 17 Apr 2024 | 02:02:41 | |
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. | |||
| Lola Salem: Opera Must Change, Or It Will Die! | 09 Apr 2024 | 01:39:10 | |
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 law. In 2018, one of her papers won the Young Scholar Prize at the STIMU Symposium, Utrecht. Since 2018, Lola has taught Music undergraduates across the University in Oxford, and since 2022 she has worked as a Lecturer in French at Wadham and St Catherine’s Colleges. At Oriel College, Oxford, Lola is a Lecturer in Music and teaches the following papers: Foundations in the Study of Music, Musical Thought and Scholarship, Historically Informed Performance, Music and Nationalisms, The String Quartet Between Classicism & Modernism, 18th Century Opera. As a child and teenager, she sang and was professionally trained at the Maîtrise de Radio France (2005-2010). Later, she became an art critic for I/O Gazette between 2016 and 2020. Since 2022, she regularly publishes in The Critic, a UK magazine, and other media such as Arthwart and Engelsberg Ideas. She is also a Civic Future Fellow and a consultant in London on issues related to education, culture, and the arts. | |||
| Matthew Sheeran: The Quest for Microtonal Music | 01 Mar 2024 | 01:36:39 | |
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. | |||
| Ian Pace, Round 3: The Artist in Society | 27 Feb 2024 | 02:21:06 | |
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. | |||
| Luigi Gaggero: The Art of Conducting | 12 Dec 2023 | 01:22:33 | |
Luigi Gaggero is a conductor and cymbalom soloist. | |||
| Martin Suckling: How to Write Beautiful Music | 12 Dec 2023 | 01:21:45 | |
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 Royal Academy of Music, and subsequently became a Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Somerville College, Oxford. His teachers include George Benjamin, Robin Holloway, Paul Patterson, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Simon Bainbridge. He has benefited from residencies at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldeburgh Festival, Aspen, and IRCAM, and has won numerous awards including the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He is Professor of Composition at the University of York. | |||
| Gary Barwin: Artists Will Save the World | 05 Dec 2023 | 01:03:25 | |
Gary Barwin is a novelist, composer, poet. This conversation was recorded 4 December 2023 via zoom. | |||
| Jim O’Rourke, composer | 01 Dec 2023 | 02:08:37 | |
Jim O’Rourke is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, archivist, and former member of Sonic Youth. | |||
| Fifty-One Minutes About Harmony, with composer Julian Anderson | 11 Oct 2023 | 00:51:19 | |
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. | |||
| Jean-Luc Hervé, compositeur [in French] | 09 Jun 2023 | 01:16:36 | |
**EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** | |||
| Dr. Tyler Foster, Mathematician and composer: Music and AI | 03 Apr 2023 | 01:18:05 | |
Dr. Tyler Foster is a mathematician and composer working in machine learning. This conversation was recorded over Zoom on March 23rd, 2023. | |||
| Laurence Osborn, composer | 17 Mar 2023 | 01:15:25 | |
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).
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| Robin Holloway, composer | 23 Feb 2023 | 00:40:07 | |
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. | |||
| An Announcement — and a Special Bonus! | 06 Jul 2022 | 00:06:49 | |
HELP US REACH OUR CROWDFUNDING GOAL! | |||
| Ensemble Proton Bern | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:52:48 | |
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. | |||
| Michael Finnissy, composer | 13 May 2022 | 01:28:02 | |
Michael Finnissy is a British composer and pianist. This conversation was recorded via Zoom on 27 April 2022. | |||
| Ian Pace, Round 2: Music in Higher Education | 01 May 2022 | 01:20:44 | |
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. | |||
| La naissance de la musique spectrale : Hugues Dufourt | 31 Mar 2022 | 01:42:38 | |
**EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** | |||
| New Music in Ukraine: Dina Pysarenko | 15 Mar 2022 | 00:45:53 | |
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. | |||
| Q & A: How Can Composers Earn a Living? | 05 Mar 2022 | 00:43:54 | |
00:00 Introduction | |||
| Kenneth Goldsmith, poet | 27 Jan 2022 | 01:01:35 | |
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. | |||
| Alexander Goehr, composer | 29 Dec 2021 | 01:20:22 | |
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 is familiar to what is genuinely new. | |||
| Nuria Schoenberg-Nono: The Composers in my Life | 20 Dec 2021 | 01:00:45 | |
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. | |||
| Augusta Read Thomas, composer | 14 Dec 2021 | 01:27:19 | |
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 quintet, chamber orchestra, orchestra, band, and Jazz band and she sang in choirs for many years. Thomas also had the distinction of having her work performed more frequently in 2013-2014 than any other living composer, according to statistics from performing rights organization ASCAP. Augusta Read Thomas official website | |||
| Martin Iddon: The Musical Riddles of John Cage | 01 Nov 2021 | 01:20:06 | |
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. | |||
| Christian Bök and the Aesthetics of Impossibility | 28 Oct 2021 | 01:45:29 | |
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. | |||
| Julian Nott: How to be a Film Composer | 09 Sep 2021 | 01:22:44 | |
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 Caterpillar”). Feature films credits include “The Decoy Bride”, “My Mother’s Courage”, “Heavy Petting” and “A Man Of No Importance”. On television, credits include all four series of the BBC’s popular “Lark Rise to Candleford”, ITV's "The Vice" and David Jason’s comedy “The Royal Bodyguard”. | |||
| In the Composer's Atelier | 23 Aug 2021 | 00:24:14 | |
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 SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Podcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe Stirnweiss | |||
| Betsy Jolas: My Trip to Bali with Xenakis and Takemitsu | 29 Jul 2021 | 00:56:08 | |
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. | |||
| Larry Schoenberg: Arnold Schoenberg, My Father | 19 Jul 2021 | 01:17:19 | |
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. | |||
| Martin Keary (Tantacrul): composer, designer, polymath | 08 Jul 2021 | 01:15:59 | |
Martin Keary: biography 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. | |||
| John Moraitis: harpsichordist and musicologist | 02 Jul 2021 | 01:44:24 | |
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. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST | |||