Samuel
Thompson

Violin, Educator, Writer, Teaching Artist, Chamber Ensemble
Samuel Thompson
(He/Him) Noted for taking audiences to “a place of calm and beauty” (Blackbook Magazine) and the “excellence and exuberance” of his playing (Charleston Today), Samuel Thompson enjoys a career that includes performance, education, journalism and arts administration.
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Stabat Mater
orchestra, violin
Foundry United Methodist Church
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Samuel Thompson

Samuel has performed in venues including The REACH at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), August Wilson African-American Cultural Center (Pittsburgh), Wortham Theatre Center (Houston) and Koerner Hall (Toronto) in addition to concerts and recitals in cities including New Haven, Austin, Chicago, Miami, and both Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. During the 2018-2019 season, Samuel appeared as soloist with Daniel Spalding and the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey for the east coast premiere of Florence Price’s First Violin Concerto, and later appeared as soloist in Bill Barclay’s play “The Black Mozart” which received its premiere in August 2019 at the Tanglewood Music Center’s Linde Center for Learning. Equally comfortable in the orchestral realm, Samuel’s orchestral career began in Houston, Texas where he was a founding member of John Axelrod’s Orchestra X and a contracted substitute with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. He later joined the New World Symphony and worked under conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Donald Runnicles, Sergiu Commissiona, Marin Alsop, Hugh Wolff and Manfred Honeck. During the 2002-2003 season Samuel was a member of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and served as concertmaster of the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre from 2008-2010.

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