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Sam is currently enrolled in the Performer-Composer DMA program at the California Institute of the Arts. Sam has recorded on the New Amsterdam/Nonesuch, New Focus Records, SEAMUS, and Ravello Recordings labels. Sam has performed with Contemporaneous, Metropolis Ensemble, TILT Brass, the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, and the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra. Sam is a member of Arcus Collective, Kludge, and SPLICE Ensemble. He has also been a guest artist/composer at universities throughout North America. Sam and his music have also been featured by the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and Fulcrum Point Discoveries. He has performed electroacoustic works for trumpet and presented his own music at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, NYCEMF, N_SEME, and SEAMUS festivals. He is a recipient of a 2016 Jerome Fund for New Music award, and his work, stringstrung, is the winner of the 2016 Miami International Guitar Festival Composition Competition. Sam has performed throughout North America and Europe, as well as in China. Sam Wells is a Los Angeles-based trumpeter, composer, and improvisor who creates evocative and narrative multimedia performances.