American pianist Sam Kinsey has performed throughout Los Angeles and at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and at MTAC annual conventions. He has appeared as soloist with the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra and the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic.

 

Mr. Kinsey was awarded First Prize in the 2015 Rio Hondo Symphony Young Artists Competition, Grand Prize in the 2014 Young Musician Foundation Debut Concerto Competition, and First Prize in the 2013 MTAC College Solo Competition. He has also received prizes at the 2014 Siegfried Weishaupt International Piano Competition in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the 2014 MTAC College Concerto Competition, the 2012 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and the 2012 Young Pianists’ Beethoven Competition.

 

Mr. Kinsey studies with Antoinette Perry at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance. At USC, he has been awarded a Trustee Scholarship, the Thornton Faculty Award, and a National Merit Scholarship. Prior to beginning his training with Ms. Perry in 2010, Mr. Kinsey studied with Caryl Smith for 7 years.

 

Upcoming engagements include performances with the Brentwood Westwood Symphony Orchestra on June 7 and with the Rio Hondo Symphony in the 2015-16 concert season. In July, Mr. Kinsey will be attending the International Summer Academy of Music in Baden-Württemberg, Germany to study with Daniel Pollack and Lily Dorfman. In past summers he has had the privilege of working with Boris Slutsky at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and with John O’Conor at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Kinsey has been featured in numerous master classes, where he has worked with esteemed artists Hung-Kuan Chen, Stewart Gordon, Yoheved Kaplinsky, John Perry, Menahem Pressler, Dmitri Rachmanov, Orli Shaham, and Nelita True.