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  • Home
  • Apply Now!
    • 2022 Secondary Division and Bass Works Fundamentals
    • 2022 Alumni Weekend
    • 2022 Intern Program
    • 2022 Associate Staff
    • 2022 Full Time Staff
  • Pay Now!
    • Refund Policy
  • 2022 Programs
    • Bass Works Fundamentals
    • Secondary Division
    • Staff Positions
  • Faculty
    • Andrea Beyer
    • Matthew Boggs
    • Paul DeNola
    • Caroline Emery
    • Barbara Fitzgerald
    • Ira Gold
    • Brandon Harris
    • Alec Hiller
    • Yoshi Horiguchi
    • Andres Martin
    • Michael Martin
    • Gaelen McCormick
    • Blake Meister
    • Kimberly Parillo
    • Colin O'Bryan
    • Tracy Rowell
    • Sam Suggs
    • Wesley Thompson
    • Jeffrey Weisner
    • Derek Zadinsky
  • Scholarships
    • Marginalized Genders Scholarship >
      • 2017 Winner
      • 2018 Winner
    • Bassists of Color Scholarship
  • Bass Rental Program
  • Merch Store
  • FAQs
  • Warm-Up Club
  • Gallery
    • Pictures
    • Recordings
  • Alumni Achievements
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Applauded by The Strad for his “brilliant and compelling programming,” bassist Sam Suggs was named Concert Artists Guild’s New Music/New Places Fellow at the 2016 CAG International Competition and received an award for Extraordinary Creativity at the 2017 Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Competition.
A paradigm-shifting performer-composer, Sam was named ‘New Artist of the Month’ (October 2015) by Musical America after winning 1st place at the 2015 International Society of Bassists Solo Competition while performing many original works.
As a collaborative bassist, he has performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and with the Argus Quartet, PUBLIQuartet and his contemporary/jazz trio Triplepoint.

A native of Buffalo, NY, Sam spends his time between the Northeast and the Shenandoah Valley performing with various chamber, crossover, and contemporary groups, and teaching full-time as Assistant Professor of Bass at James Madison University.

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