Sam

Described as “Dynamic and Committed” by the Boston Globe, Violist Sam Kelder
performs regularly in New England as guest artist with A Far Cry, Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, Guerilla Opera, Callithumpian Consort, Sound Icon, as well as
Cape Cod Symphony, Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic,
Phoenix Orchestra Reborn, and the New Bedford Symphony. Kelder recently
joined the string trio Sound Energy, an ensemble dedicated to pushing the
traditional violin-viola-cello combination to represent the bold voices of 20th and
21st century composers.

Kelder has also performed as the featured artist at Third Practice Electroacoustic
Festival, as soloist at New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and as guest
artist with the Arctic Philharmonic in Norway.

His studies yield a B.M. form the University of Houston and M.M. from Mannes
The New School for Music. Sam graduated in May 2017 from Doctoral Studies at
Boston University as teaching assistant to Michelle LaCourse. Major teachers and
influences include Wayne Brooks, Karen Dreyfus, Kyung Sun Lee, Laurie Smukler,
and Bayla Keyes.

Sam has worked with many living composers, including Hans Abrahamsen, Derek
Bermel, William Bolcom, Chaya Czernowin, Zosha Di Castri, Beat Furrer, Georg
Friedrich Haas, John Harbison, Heinz Holliger, Nico Muhly, Philippe Leroux,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Joan Tower, and more. He can be heard on Not Art Records,
and is an artist member of Music for Food.

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