Samantha Ege on rediscovering the music of Florence Price

Samantha Ege

Florence Price in 1941

Price with daughter Florence Louise Robinson in the garden at her summer house in St Anne, Illinois

Price attending a party in honour of Maude Roberts George, Chicago, 1934

By Samantha Ege, 29 February 2024

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“it was a counter-history that I was hearing in this music”

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Samantha Ege

Samantha Ege is a music historian, concert pianist, and research fellow at the University of Southampton. She is the author of the forthcoming South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene. She has recorded several albums, featuring music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Her next album features piano concertos by Doreen Carwithen and Julia Perry.