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Samantha Ege, guest speaker and piano 

A concert pianist and a leading scholar and interpreter of the music of Florence Price, Samantha Ege is the author of a new book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene. South Side Impresarios was awarded the 2024 Society for American Music H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention Award. Ege gave the world premiere of Florence Price’s complete Fantasie nègre set at the 2021 London Festival of American Music, and in 2018, she made her international lecture-recital debut at Chicago’s Symphony Center with “A Celebration of Women in Music: Composing the Black Chicago Renaissance.” Ege has written for the New York Times, The Guardian, and Gramophone, and her storytelling surrounding Black women composers has extended to two BBC Radio 3 documentaries.