This Month’s Artist: Dr. Samuel Springer
Samuel Springer, DMA, is active in the Mid-Atlantic region as a recitalist, accompanist, and church musician. As a performer, Samuel has played concerts in England, the United States, and the Caribbean. He has also performed large-scale choral accompaniments in works such as the Duruflé Requiem and Vierne’s Messe Solennelle with many choirs and choral groups. Samuel has also been a clinician at American Guild of Organists workshops and has written articles for journals such as Choir and Organ and The American Guild of Organists Magazine.
Samuel studied at Trinity College of Music, London, Yale School of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He is the recipient of many awards for organ performance and scholarship, among these are the W.F. Langmaid Prize for organ from Trinity College of Music, London, the Harry Jepson Memorial Scholarship for organ from the Yale School of Music, and he was named the Hugh Giles Scholar at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music & the Arts, and the Lynn Hebden Award for organ performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Thomas Murray, Charles Krigbaum, Gerre Hancock and Donald Sutherland. His previous appointments were as Organist at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Assistant Organist at Yale Divinity School and Trinity-On-The-Green, New Haven.