About

Sam is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who recently completed a Masters in Music & Music Education (with a focus on voice) at Teachers College. There, Sam earned the Teachers College and Florence K. Geffen scholarships. Sam supplemented her classical voice study with coursework in choral pedagogy, composition, piano, flute, and conducting, while simultaneously earning a professional certificate in Music Theory from Berklee College of Music (Online). Sam is also a two-time recipient of the Azrieli scholarship to study and perform Yiddish culture and Jewish music, respectively, as a vocalist.

 

Sam continues to build upon extensive ensemble singing experience across western classical, sacred, modern, folk, barbershop, acapella, and more, at venues including Carnegie Hall, United Palace, Symphony Space, Opera America, and Palace Theater. Sam currently performs as lead singer of the pop-rock cover band, Deep Sea Bistro; in sacred and secular ensembles; and in various musical theater projects. Sam currently teaches grades 3-6 music at PS105 in the Bronx via Education Through Music, at songwriting day camps for students ages 4-14 at Brooklyn Music Factory, and in private voice lessons out of her home in Brooklyn.

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Sam is profoundly grateful to have trained in the studio of the late, internationally renowned dramatic soprano, Catherine Mazzone, for the past decade, where Sam cultivated a knowledge of and passion for vocal pedagogy to support healthy, embodied, and authentic singing across genres. Sam commits to foregrounding empathy in her teaching practice, holistically affirming the experiences of each singer, and working with love, care, tenderness, and compassion, at the nexus of the emotional, spiritual, physical, and technical. Similarly, as a singer and performer, Sam's empathy, emotionality, and technique inform each other. She aims to operate with a "team player" attitude, and as Catherine would say, a commitment to "serving the music." ​​

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Sam sees singing and artistic expression more broadly as birthrights to which everyone is entitled and of which everyone is deserving should they want it, while she recognizes that current systems and structures do not reflect this view. As such, Sam aims to apply an anti-oppression lens to her work and to cultivate musical spaces grounded in an abundance mentality. Sam aims to support singers along their journeys toward authentic self-expression, as they unearth and gain access to their unique, once-in-a-universe voices.