Michel Samson

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Michel Samson (* 1945 in the Netherlands ) is an American violinist and violist of Dutch origin, who first became known as an improvisation musician in Albert Ayler's band before he pursued a classical career.

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Samson enjoyed a classical violin training; Yehudi Menuhin was one of his mentors. In 1965 Ornette Coleman brought him onto the stage with his trio at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw . He moved to the United States to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia . In April 1966, he introduces himself to Ayler, who brought him into his quintet. According to the jazz book , he “not only brought a folkloric note to the band of saxophonist Albert Ayler , but also created dragging, frenzied textures with double and triple fingerings, arpeggios , flageolets and pizzicati , which radically departed from the conventions of jazz history ." He played with him both on the European tour and in the United States, which is documented by numerous recordings. The last joint appearance was at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967. He also played with John Handy and worked as a studio musician through John Hammond .

Back in the Netherlands, he was first violist in the Hilversum Radio Orchestra from 1981 to 1985. In 1983 he was also involved as a soloist with the Metropole Orkest in the world premiere of Rob Pronk's Rondo en Passacaglia . Samson also worked for Willem Breuker , with whom he recorded film scores for films by Freek de Jonge in 1985 (album De Bedevaart & Kkkomediant ). In the same year he accepted a professorship as a violist at the University of Louisville , which he held for 15 years. In 1987 he interpreted the piano quartet in G minor by Brahms with Rian de Waal, Joan Berkhemer and Nadia David in Amsterdam , which was recorded for the radio and broadcast repeatedly. Since 1997 he has also worked as a violin dealer in Louisville (Kentucky) .

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  1. ↑ Bert Jansma Michel Samson en other sores ( Memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Den Haag Central, July 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Joachim-Ernst Berendt , Günther Huesmann Das Jazzbuch S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007
  3. ↑ Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser (Ed.) Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 1995, p. 986
  4. ↑ Breuker Discography ( Memento from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Journal of the American Viola Society 1 (2)
  6. ↑ BBC Radio 3 Euroclassic Notturno , July 10, 2008
  7. ^ European Broadcasting Union Radio Notturno , October 28, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Samson, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist and violist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Netherlands