Samantha Ege

Pianist Samantha Ege has specialized in the music of African-American female composers. She is also a noted musicologist who has written extensively about music by Black women in Chicago between the world wars. Ege grew up in Surrey, England. She loved music as a child, playing the piano along with songs on radio or television, and was encouraged by her parents, but it was mostly the works of European-born male composers that she studied at first. She did play the piano rags of Scott Joplin, although they were discouraged by her teachers. Ege attended the University of Bristo...