Since then Sam has performed all over the world both as soloist and chamber musician, regularly collaborating with Steven Isserlis, members of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the Galliard Ensemble. In 2010 he will be touring Europe (including the Wigmore Hall on 29^th April) and the USA with Joshua Bell. He has recorded a number of CDs and has broadcast widely on radio.

Sam is very grateful to George Isserlis both for introducing him to Barnes Music Society and for helping him unearth the wonderful and largely forgotten piano works of his father, the Russian pianist/composer Julius Isserlis. Sam has made a new edition of these works and hopes to record them in the near future. They include a short previously unpublished work entitled “Warum” (Why?) written in memory of Scriabin’s son, who died aged twelve in a boating accident.

 Sam has composed several solo piano and duo works, and also a children’s opera which has had three performances in London. His Song of the Penguins for bassoon and piano, dedicated to Roger and Penny Birnstingl, is published by Emerson Editions. Outside his musical life he is a passionate fell-walker and amateur magician.

`Beautifully played – an enviable technique’ (Musical Opinion)

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