As a keyboardist and improviser, Samuel Gaskin is interested in music of all kinds. As an improviser, he shared 1st prize with Niklas Jahn (Germany) in the 2023 St. Albans International Organ Competition, and received 2nd prize in the 2021 American Guild of Organists' (AGO) National Competition of Organ Improvisation. As a composer, recent premieres include Chase, for the ~Nois Saxophone Quartet, In memoriam, premiered by the Unheard-of Ensemble, and Psalm 118, for SATB choir.
Samuel was assistant organist at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas before receiving a Fulbright grant to France, where he is currently pursuing Artist's Diplomas in organ and in jazz studies at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Versailles.
"De profundis" Prelude (2020) by Samuel Gaskin
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