Combining a mix of performance and conversation, Dr. Samantha Ege animates the soundworlds and stories of the women who inspire her research. Dr. Ege is a leading interpreter and scholar of the African-American composer Florence B. Price. Dr. Ege’s publications and performances shed an important light on composers from underrepresented backgrounds. In 2023, she won the Society for American Music’s Irving Lowens Article Award for Chicago, the ‘City We Love to Call Home!’: Intersectionality, Narrativity, and Locale in the Music of Florence Beatrice Price and Theodora Sturkow Ryder (American Music journal). Dr. Ege’s first book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene will be published with the University of Illinois Press in autumn 2024. 

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