Samuel Garrett is a composer, artist, and educator based in Baltimore, MD, known for his solo and ensemble works and music for film. He has composed and performed in several acclaimed groups, including Voice Coils, World of Mirth, and Feast of the Epiphany. The trees out there are bent and dripping, an octet based on the writings of Frederick Barthelme, is his most recent work for chamber ensemble.
Garrett holds advanced degrees in composition and musicology from Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Felipe Lara and completed his thesis on the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the ineffable in the context of the work of French philosopher and literary figure Georges Bataille. He previously attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he studied with Stuart Saunders Smith and Linda Dusman.
At MacDowell, Garrett composed the music for God Rot, a three-act chamber opera with a libretto co-written by author B.R. Yeager.
