Samuel Hogarth repetiteur

Born in London, Samuel began playing the piano and composing at an early age, and his first published piece was commissioned by Boosey & Hawkes when he was 15. He studied piano, composition and conducting on a scholarship to the Junior Royal Academy of Music, and from 2000 to 2001 attended the National Youth Orchestra composers' course with Paul Patterson and Diana Burrell. His Fantasy for violin was premiered by Thomas Gould, now leader of the Aurora Orchestra, and also played at the Cheltenham Music Festival by Eleanor Fagg, then leader of the NYO. He also wrote for the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta.

Samuel went up to New College, Oxford in 2001 to read music, graduating with the top first in his year and winning the Gibbs Prize. He stayed in Oxford to complete a masters in musicology, which he passed with distinction. During this time he conducted Britten's The Turn of the Screw with Oxford City Opera, founded and conducted the Holywell Chamber Players, and directed Oxford's new music group, Ensemble Isis. He also had works performed by the New College Choir, New Chamber Opera and Ensemble Isis. He worked as a repetiteur on a production of La Bohème and performed with various soloists and ensembles around the university.

After leaving Oxford Samuel returned to London to pursue his performing, conducting and composing interests. His opera, David and Goliath, was commissioned by New Chamber Opera and premiered in February 2007, then performed again under his direction in a fully-staged production in March 2008. He also undertook various engagements as a jazz pianist, following on from the success of his debut album, song for someone, recorded in 2004. He has performed at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, the Vortex and St Paul's Cathedral, and two of his jazz compositions were included on the soundtrack to the 2007 Angelina Jolie film A Mighty Heart. In July 2008 he was a finalist at the Nottingham National Jazz Piano Competition. His second jazz album is scheduled for release later this year.

From 2006-8 Samuel was musician in residence at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he conducted the college choral society and orchestra and worked with students to develop music in the college through a variety of concerts, masterclasses and workshops. He conducted the world premiere of Sadie Harrison's Vigani's Others with soprano Lesley Jane Rogers and a student ensemble in 2007, and his own opera the following year. He also conducted Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice with the Cambridge University Baroque Ensemble and several works with the University of Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra.