Samy Moussa

Samy Moussa is a Canadian composer and conductor, born in Montreal in 1984 and based in Germany for many years. His catalogue includes operas and many orchestral works, several of them commissioned or championed by Kent Nagano. He received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2013 and the Hindemith Prize in 2017. Moussa studied composition with José Evangelista at the Université de Montréal, then in Munich with Matthias Pintscher and Pascal Dusapin, and took conducting masterclasses with Pierre Boulez and Péter Eötvös. In 2010 he became music director of the INDEX Ensemble in Munich.