Passages_Übergänge Samuel Cosandey

• Jehan Alain (1911 - 1940): Trois Danses (1939):
• 1 Alain: Trois Danses (1939): Joies 07:16
• 2 Alain: Trois Danses (1939): Deuils - Pour Honorer Une Mémoire Héroïque 12:28
• 3 Alain: Trois Danses (1939): Luttes 04:48
• Antoine Fachard: « … Comme Un Premier Miroir Concentrique… » (2018) Pour Orgue À Vent Dynamique, Clarinette, Harpe Et Percussion:
• 4 Fachard: « … Comme Un Premier Miroir Concentrique… » (2018) Pour Orgue À Vent Dynamique, Clarinette, Harpe Et Percussion 07:08
• Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943): Sieben Sterne (1970):
• 5 Ferneyhough: Sieben Sterne (1970) 16:54
• Total Runtime 48:34

Info for Passages_Übergänge

The Swiss organist Samuel Cosandey says about his debut album PASSAGES: "When we compose a program, we try to remove each piece from the context of its creation and embed it in a new dynamic. The impact caused by the juxtaposition of works that are different in every respect invites us as listeners to ask ourselves the question: How do the works relate to each other?

So, composing a program means creating a journey along which each piece finds itself in the next. The content of this album was created with these thoughts in mind. This results in a motto that is described in the album title PASSAGES. "

Three major works of the 20th century by Alain, Fachard and Ferneyhough invite the listener to follow Cosandey on his path from one to the next.

Samuel Cosandey, organ (Tracks 1-5)
Mathilde Bernard, harp (Track 4)
Corentin Barro, percussion
Johannes Feuchter, clarinets

Samuel Cosandey completed his first organ education with Martine Reymond in Montreux. Parallel to his music studies, he graduated in an elite class for sports and arts at the Gymnasium Auguste-Piccard in Lausanne.

At the University of the Arts in Bern (HKB) he studied organ as a first instrument with Daniel Glaus and Ludger Lohmann and the Clavichord as a second instrument with Andreas Erismann. In 2016 he completed his master’s degree in organ. In 2018 he completed a Master in Specialized Music Performance with a special focus on New Music under the direction of Daniel Glaus, Tobias Willi and Bernhard Haas with summa cum laude, also at the HKB.

Samuel is very interested in contemporary expression, especially in musical theatre, an art form that he discovered for himself during his studies with Pierre Sublet and Francoise Rivalland. He studied composition with Daniel Glaus and Xavier Dayer. Samuel’s language is characterized by the simplicity of the idea and by the preference for the short form in which melancholy and joy, rebellion and belonging, as well as extroversion and restraint are opposite one another.

Ensemble Polygon, an ensemble for contemporary music in Bern under the direction of Maurice Donnet-Monay, he is active on historical keyboard instruments.

Samuel is responsible for the liturgical music in the reformed parish of Freiburg and in the Paraplegic Centre in Nottwil. These activities allow him to further develop various aspects of church music and their integration into a living liturgy. He teaches organ at the music school in Aigle and performs regularly throughout Switzerland. Samuel is the winner of the international organ competition Bern 2015 and the Migros Culture Percentage Award and also won the 1st prize of the organ composition competition Stiftsmusik 2019 in Stuttgart.