Sam Atlas is a freelance trumpeter in New York City. She performs regularly with orchestras and chamber groups such as the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Amadeo Philharmonic, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, Calliope Brass, and the Manhattan School of Music’s Opus 130 Orchestra. In addition to performing around New York City, Sam has enjoyed performing as principal trumpet with the Oberlin Orchestra on works by composers ranging from Beethoven to John Adams, including the world premiere performance of Notes on Becoming by Benjamin Martin. Sam has performed on tour with the Oberlin Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, and with the Norwalk Youth Symphony in Prague, Vienna, Salzberg, Munich, Berlin, and Leipzig, playing major symphonic works such as Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. She has attended Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the Eastern Music Festival, Tom Hooten’s Trumpet Mastery Course, and the New England Music Camp. She is eager to participate in the Aspen Music Festival during the summer 2024.

Sam is also an avid educator and has taken an active role creating and maintaining a small trumpet studio since 2017. She has taught general music at a local school in Bridgeport and served as a section leader of the University of Miami’s Frost Band of the Hour. Sam was the trumpet teacher for the Community Music School in Oberlin, Ohio and is now on faculty at the Larchmont Music Academy as well as Virtu.Academy. As a teacher, she firmly believes that each individual learns and grows in different ways, and she strives to communicate her knowledge in a variety of forms in order to ensure that each student can maximize their learning and find their own voice through the trumpet.

Sam also has experience in arts management where she was the Concert Production Assistant at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2023. This position required formatting, proofing, and producing over 350 concert programs for official Conservatory concerts, recitals, and guest masterclasses while assisting students, faculty, staff, and the public with room bookings and other inquiries. Sam now works in the Student Engagement Office at the Manhattan School of Music as an Office Assistant.

Sam completed her Bachelor of Music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music under Roy Poper and is obtaining her Master of Music in Orchestral Performance at the Manhattan School of Music studying with Ethan Bensdorf.