Dr Samantha Ege is is an award-winning researcher and musicologist, internationally recognized concert pianist, and popular public speaker. Dr Ege is a leading scholar and interpreter of the African American composer Florence B. Price. Her first book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene, illuminates Price in the context of the Black Chicago Renaissance. Dr Ege is also a concert pianist, classically trained and endlessly inspired by the lesser-known repertoire that stems from her scholarly interests. Her performances bring her research to life, sounding new narratives that are so often unheard in the contemporary concert hall. Dr Ege seeks to communicate the diversity of classical music's past, present, and future through her performances, and foster a sense of belonging for everyone. Whether sharing the Black Renaissance repertoire of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, or displaying the postmodernisms of Undine Smith Moore and Julia Perry, or championing the British concertos of Avril Coleridge-Taylor and Doreen Carwithen, or celebrating the contemporary works of Bongani Ndodana-Breen and Odaline de la Martinez, storytelling is at the heart of every note. Dr Ege's vast and varied programs evince the dialogue between research and repertoire; they are all about exploring the narratives that shape our communities and connect us as individuals. Ege is pronounced Eh-geh (ɛgɛ)