Samuel Andreyev

Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian composer, born in Kincardine, Ontario, in 1981, who moved to France to study composition in Paris. He won the Henri Dutilleux composition competition in 2012 with Night Division, and he also runs a YouTube channel where he talks about music and composers. Andreyev studied composition with Allain Gaussin and then with Frédéric Durieux at the Paris Conservatoire, and spent a residency at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He has taught at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.