Samuel Wells
Samuel Wells is a composer, performer, and music technologist based in New York City. As an advocate for new and exciting music, he actively commissions and performs contemporary works.
Sam has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and France. He has also been a guest artist/composer at universities throughout North America, including Western Michigan University, Western University of Ontario, and Northern Arizona University. He has performed electroacoustic works for trumpet and presented his own music at the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, NYCEMF, N_SEME, and SEAMUS festivals. Sam and his music have also been featured by the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and Fulcrum Point Discoveries. Sam is a member of Kludge, an innovative duo with Jon Carbin that explores the possibilities of cello, trumpet, and electronic media. Sam has performed regularly with the Owensboro (KY) Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra.
Sam's collaboration with Max Wellman, You Must Believe in Spring, is an album of new arrangements of classic songs from the American songbook. His work (dys)functions is published by qPress.
Sam has degrees in both performance and composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and graduate degrees in Trumpet Performance and Computer Music Composition at Indiana University. He has studied composition with Sven-David Sandström, Jeffrey Hass, John Gibson, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi and Zhou Long, and trumpet with Keith Benjamin and John Rommel. He has served as the Assistant Director of the IU New Music Ensemble, and as an Adjunct Lecturer of Music at Indiana University East. More information can be found at www.samwellsmusic.com
Sam has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and France. He has also been a guest artist/composer at universities throughout North America, including Western Michigan University, Western University of Ontario, and Northern Arizona University. He has performed electroacoustic works for trumpet and presented his own music at the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, NYCEMF, N_SEME, and SEAMUS festivals. Sam and his music have also been featured by the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and Fulcrum Point Discoveries. Sam is a member of Kludge, an innovative duo with Jon Carbin that explores the possibilities of cello, trumpet, and electronic media. Sam has performed regularly with the Owensboro (KY) Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra.
Sam's collaboration with Max Wellman, You Must Believe in Spring, is an album of new arrangements of classic songs from the American songbook. His work (dys)functions is published by qPress.
Sam has degrees in both performance and composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and graduate degrees in Trumpet Performance and Computer Music Composition at Indiana University. He has studied composition with Sven-David Sandström, Jeffrey Hass, John Gibson, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi and Zhou Long, and trumpet with Keith Benjamin and John Rommel. He has served as the Assistant Director of the IU New Music Ensemble, and as an Adjunct Lecturer of Music at Indiana University East. More information can be found at www.samwellsmusic.com
