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Samantha Ege (piano)

Friday 24 October 2025

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

A blend of performance and storytelling, this programme begins with Gabriela Ortiz’s Preludio y Estudio no. 3. The piece is a colourful and rhythmic homage to the women who fought in the Mexican Revolution. From Mexico to the UK, Doreen Carwithen’s Molto Adagio from her Sonatina and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Andante from his Three-Fours Valse Suite bring moments of plaintive reflection. This year also marks 150 years since Coleridge-Taylor’s birth, and his musical influence is felt in the African American folk melodies and lush Romanticism of Florence Price’s Fantasie Nègre no. 2 in G minor. The programme ends as it began: with a fiery contemporary work that uplifts women’s stories. Commissioned by Samantha Ege to celebrate the women in her latest book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Scene, Cuban fusionista Camila Cortina Bello’s Bravura tells the story of Florence Price’s musical sisterhood on Chicago’s South Side.

Gabriela Ortiz Preludio y Estudio no. 3
Doreen Carwithen “Molto Adagio” from Sonatina
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor “Andante” from Three-Fours Valse Suite, op. 71
Florence Price Fantasie Nègre no. 2 in G minor
Camila Cortina Bello Bravura

 

Samantha Ege piano

Samantha Ege is a music historian and concert pianist who specialises in 20th and 21st century composers. She is the author of South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Scene. Her latest album, Maestra: Julia Perry and Doreen Carwithen Piano Concertos with Lontano Orchestra and conductor Odaline de la Martinez, is out now. Her next album, featuring the world premiere recording of Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Concerto in F minor with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Andrews, will be out this autumn. For more information visit: www.samanthaege.com

Dates, Times & Book

Fri 24 Oct 1:00 PM £10 Book

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