Samuel Zagnit

Samuel Zagnit, a native New Yorker, is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Orin O’Brien and David Grossman. He recently completed his graduate studies at the Yale School of Music, with Don Palma. An avid chamber musician, Sam attended The Bowdoin Music Festival, Decoda Skidmore Chamber Music Institute, Texas Music Festival, and in August of 2018, the Lucerne Music Festival. Sam is part of the duo confluss, with Amber Evans, soprano: a new chamber ensemble committed to the performance of repertoire for their instrumentation and other unconventional setups. At MSM, Sam played with Tactus, an ensemble part of the Contemporary Performance Program. As their bassist, Sam was able to play contemporary music as an undergraduate in this graduate program for four years, including Carter’s A Mirror on Which to Dwell, and Figment III. In March 2019, he served as acting associate principal for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Mattias Pintscher, and recently returned to play with LACO accompanying his former teacher, David Grossman, in the west coast premiere of Dark with Excessive Bright, by Missy Mazolli in November 2019. Sam recently performed the works of Mason Bynes, Darian Thomas, Nick Dunston, and Sarian Sankoh for BPBC as part of MISE_EN PLACE's Soloist Series on July 30th, 2020.