Samantha Ege: 'I had never learnt about black women in classical music'
Samantha Ege plays at Finding A Voice, in Clonmel.
Dr Samantha Ege is an award-winning musicologist and concert pianist who has been studying music since she was three. But it wasn’t until she was an undergraduate on an exchange programme in Canada that she heard a classical piece composed by a black woman. It was a moment that would shape the career of the British musician.
“I had a professor who taught early 20th century music and she mentioned the names Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. I didn’t really think anything of them until I heard their music and I learnt they were women of African descent. I had never learnt about black women in classical music before. It really stopped me in my tracks.”
