Sam has been named a 2019 Djerassi Artist Fellow and will spend a month at the Djerassi Ranch in Northern California.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra recently announced their 2019 US national tour programming, which includes Sam's recent work Movements (for us and them). The work is a Stanford Live and Australian Chamber Orchestra co-commission and was toured in Australia earlier this summer.

For information about the upcoming tour, click here.

The Chicago-based Spektral Quartet has announced details of their new experimental salon series, the first installment of which includes work by poet and songwriter avery r. young, Alyssa Martinez, the Black Monks of Mississippi, a musical performance by 2018 Guggenheim fellow Tonia Ko, and the world premiere of a new work by Sam. The evening is co-presented with Chicago-based artist and organizer Theaster Gates.

For information about the event, click here.

Dylan Mattingly and David Bloom, the artistic directors of the NYC-based group Contemporaneous, started a podcast that explores music and the big questions regarding the human urge to make art. The first episode asks: what does it mean to work without limits? Sam is featured alongside American Composers Orchestra CEO Ed Yim and BASE jumper Steph Davis. Listen here.