Samantha Ege is a pianist, author, and music historian. She is best known for her award- winning work on the African American composer Florence Price and critically acclaimed recordings of under-represented composers.

Samantha’s first book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene (2024) was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as ‘a powerful corrective to the ‘Great Man’ theory of history.’

As a pianist, Samantha made her Barbican debut in 2021 with a ‘vivid, revelatory recital’ (iNews) in which she gave the UK premiere of Vítězslava Kaprálová’s Sonata Appassionata. She has performed across the UK, Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia. She has also played with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Oxford Philharmonic, Oakland Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, New Haven Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia.

Samantha’s debut album was the 2018 Four Women: Music for Solo Piano by Price, Bilsland, Kaprálová, and Bonds (’Ege is our trusted guide’ – BBC Music Magazine). Her second was the 2021 Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price (’Triumphs indeed’ – New York Times). Samantha’s sixth album signals her growing interest in the stories closer to home. It anticipates Samantha’s modern premiere of Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Concerto with St Paul’s Sinfonia and John Andrews (15 May 2026), as well as a new recording of British-inspired piano concertos (Resonus), which features commissions by Shirley J. Thompson and Camila Cortina Bello alongside music by Ethel Bilsland that has not been heard in over a century.