Sam Torres is a Troy, NY based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and audio engineer. His ongoing collaborations with pianist Sophia Vastek include a duo called Tilted Arc, and Organ Colossal, a performing, concert presenting, and musical-community-building collective. Sam has written music for saxophone and live electronics, orchestra, solo piano, and various chamber ensembles. His composition, “Ritual: Breath of a Poem” for percussion quartet and interactive multichannel electronics won the first prize in the Peabody Institute Prix d’Eté in 2018. Sam has been commissioned by Sopriola, The Witches, the Peabody Community Chorus, the public school district of Bedford, NY, Music of Reality, bassist Sam Zagnit, choir director Sonya Sutton, and Sophia Vastek. Sam’s music has been heard in house concerts and coffee shops from Washington, DC to New York’s Hudson Valley, as well as at the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, the National Cathedral, Spectrum NYC, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Arts Letters & Numbers, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Manhattan School of Music, and internationally in South Africa, Germany, the UK, and after June of 2020, Latvia and the Netherlands as well. Performing woodwinds, electronics, and working as an audio engineer has brought Sam to venues across the US, including EMPAC, Town Hall Seattle, University of Chicago, SMOKE, Spectrum NYC, MIT, and others. Sam holds a B.Mus from Manhattan School of Music, and a M.Mus in from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
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