Basic
First Name:
Sam
Last Name:
Ou
City:
Boston
State:
MA
Country:
USA
First Year:
1996
Last Year:
2005
Biography
Birthday:
11/5/1973
About:
Praised for his "impassioned performance" (Boston Globe) and playing "with remarkable ease and clarity, while maintaining a graceful—if vociferous—line that fit well into the narrative" (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), cellist Sam Ou enjoys an active musical life in the Greater Boston area. A recipient of the Rosemary Scales Prize for best cello concerto performance at the Kingsville International Young Performers Competition, Mr. Ou has performed at several prestigious summer venues including Tanglewood, Sarasota, Musicorda, Santa Fe, and La Jolla music festivals. He gave the world premiere performance of Larry Bell’s Cello Concerto entitled "The Triumph of Lightness" with the Boston Civic Symphony at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall (NEC). Symphonically, he occasionally plays in the Boston Pops and Boston Ballet Orchestras. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ou has collaborated and performed with the Borromeo String Quartet, James Buswell, Hung-Kuan Chen, Pi-Hsien Chen, James Dunham, Thomas Hill, Patricia McCarty, Paul Neubauer, Heiichiro Ohyama, Lois Shapiro, and Marcus Thompson. He performed Yehudi Wyner's Tanz and Maissele with violinist Lucy Chapman, clarinetist Bruce Creditor, and the Pulitzer prize-winning composer at the piano at The Center for Jewish History in New York. A faculty member and assistant string chairperson at NEC’s Preparatory School, Mr. Ou coaches chamber music and also maintains a private teaching studio. In the summer, he has taught at Music on the Hill in Belmont, MA, the Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg, the Walnut Hill Music Festival in Natick, MA, and Point Counterpoint in Leicester, VT. Ou released a CD entitled With String & Pipe, in which he collaborated with organist Harry Lyn Huff. He was also featured in Larry Bell’s CDs entitled In a Garden of Dreamers, where he collaborated with recorder player Aldo Abreu and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa. For more information, please visit his website at samweiou.weebly.com.
Current Primary Activity(ies):
Faculty, New England Conservatory of Music's Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education
Education:
NEC
Degree:
DMA
Other Teachers:
Gretchen Geber, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Aldo Parisot