Samuel Andreyev is a writer, composer, teacher, and performer whose vocal, chamber, and orchestral compositions are performed around the world. He operated The Expert Press, a small press devoted to contemporary poetry, for several years in Toronto. His first major collection of poems, entitled Evidence, was released in 2009. Born and raised in Ontario, Andreyev studied composition, musical acoustics, orchestration, electroacoustics, and musical analysis at the Paris Conservatory and (CNSMDP) and IRCAM (Paris). He has lived in France since 2003, where he is currently employed as a Professor of Musical Analysis at Conservatoire de Cambrai (France), and as a freelance composer, writer, and oboist. Connect with Andreyev at www.samuelandreyev.com or Twitter @samuelandreyev.