Biography
Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian-French composer, oboist, poet and educator. Born Samuel Curnoe Andreeff on 15 April 1981 in Kincardine, Ontario, he settled in France in 2003 and has lived in Strasbourg since 2014; he became a French citizen in 2024 and now resides in Germany. He studied composition, analysis and electronic music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and IRCAM.
Andreyev has composed around thirty concert works, most of which have been commercially recorded, and has released several portrait albums. He teaches analysis and harmony at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the Strasbourg Center of Syracuse University. In 2018 he was appointed to the music council of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.
His first original film score was for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain, 2026), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack album was released by Métier Records.
