Samuel Dharma

Australian pianist Samuel Dharma is the winner of numerous piano competition awards in Australia, Canada and Germany. His playing has been described as “powerful” (Jungfrau Zeitung) with "an artistic sincerity and intensity which is compelling as well as rare" (Dr Robert Roux, Steinway Artist).

Samuel has given solo recitals and performed as chamber musician to audiences in Australia, Europe, and North America. As chamber musician, at international music festivals he has collaborated with such artists as Bora Kim, Susan Lamb-Cook, Joëlle Mauris, Jan-Ype Nota, Sunny Roh and Amarins Wierdsma. He has performed piano concertos with the UNSW Orchestra on numerous occasions, working with conductors Steven Hillinger and Colin Piper. His performances have been broadcasted by 2MBS FM.

Committed to music education, Samuel serves as a member of the piano faculty at Conservatorium High School and Sydney Grammar School (College St). Music festival teaching commitments include the Autumn Piano School hosted by the New England Conservatory in Armidale, as well as the Kawai Sydney International Masterclass Festival in Sydney, where he served as resident pianist to perform works by Australian composer Graham Hair and his composition students. Previously, he was a teaching assistant at both the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory (Toronto, Canada) and Rice University (Houston, USA).

A graduate of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory (Toronto, Canada) and Rice University (Houston, USA), Samuel has studied with many of the most important artist teachers in the world such as Leon Fleisher, Robert McDonald, John O'Conor, John Perry and Jacques Rouvier. As chamber musician, he has been coached by the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin, violinist Cho-Liang Lin and cellist Peter Wiley.

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