Dr. Samantha Ege is an author, pianist, and music historian. She is best known for her award-winning work on the African American composer Florence Price and critically acclaimed recordings of underrepresented composers. ​

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Dr. Ege's first book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “a powerful corrective to the ‘Great Man’ theory of history.”​ She regularly writes about African-descended composers, with bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Statesman. Her BBC Radio 3 documentaries, "Florence Price's Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship" and "Undine Smith Moore: The Dean of Black Women Composers," also reflect the breadth of her broadcasting work.​

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On her next album, Dr. Ege performs as the soloist alongside the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Andrews in the world-premiere recording of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto (out on Resonus Classics this November).

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As a musicologist, Dr. Ege has won several distinctions including the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award and the Society for American Music's Irving Lowens Article Award. She has held research positions at the University of Southampton and was previously the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Musicology (York) and a BA (hons) in Music (Bristol). She spent her second undergraduate year at McGill as an exchange student.

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Ege is pronounced Eh-geh (ɛgɛ)