Samir Amarouch

Paris-based composer Samir Amarouch writes music equally inspired by the composer Grisey, Sciarrino or Romitelli, by the electronic musicians Atom tm, Oval, Mark Fell or Oneohtrix point never, and by traditional music, such as Gnawa music. Transcribing in the instrumental or vocal domain natural sounds (bird songs, wolves howling sound, or other soundscape) and artificial sounds (as synthetic sounds, vocoder, or others effects from electronic music), he develops a unique aesthetic querying our relationship with environment and technology.

He worked with the harpsichord player Orlando Bass, the conductor Simon Proust, InSolitus Ensemble, Vocalists 20.21., the german Mozaik Ensemble, and the symphonic orchestra Orchestre +. Current projects include a new work for Lucerne Festival Academy for sept. 2018, and a new work for Ensemble InterContemporain premiered in Febr. 2019.

Born in France in 1991, Samir Amarouch is currently finishing his bachelor degree at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in composition and new technology in S. Gervasoni, L. Naón, Y. Maresz & O. Saladriguez’ class and analysis in C. Ledoux’ class. He studied classical guitar with J. Mathelin and J.-M. Zvellenreuther at Boulogne Billancourt Conservatoire (prix with unanimous congratulation of the jury in 2013), composition with Jean-Luc Hervé (prix with unanimous congratulation of the jury in 2015) and musicology in Paris Sorbonne University (Master Degree in 2014). His work Ceux-là sont la nuit for harp, viola, flute won the Prize of Boulogne Billancourt in 2014. He is a recipient of the Meyer's Fondation Grant.

Samir Amarouch’s tracks

• Analogies for 16 musicians by Samir Amarouch
• Lighting for 9 musicians by Samir Amarouch
• Artefact, for six musicians - Live 1st Edit - by Samir Amarouch
• Lighting I for 8 musicians by Samir Amarouch
• Blooming for guitar by Samir Amarouch