"Subtlety and restraint, combined with power and purpose." -Cadence Magazine, September 2000

Saxophonist, multi-reedist, and composer Sam Sadigursky has played and recorded with artists as diverse as Ray Brown and Brad Mehldau. He is the winner of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, the NFAA/IAJE Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship and the John Coltrane Young Artist Award, as well as a recipient of grants from the Jerome and the Puffin Foundation. Currently residing in Brooklyn, New York, he performs in many top jazz and world music venues and has toured the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan. He has played in the Monterey, JVC, Aspen, Ravinia, and CMJ festivals and is featured on saxophone and flute on the score to the film Seeing Other People, starring Jay Mohr and Julianne Nicholson. As a composer, he has been commissioned by vocal groups, film directors, and has collaborated with modern dance choreographers in live performance of their works. He can often be heard with the Mingus Orchestra, Gabe Kahane, Lucia Pulido, Edmar Castaneda, Folklore Urbano, La Cumbiamba e Neye, and others. In 2007, a collection of his vocal compositions based on poetry, entitled The Words Project, was released to critical acclaim on New Amsterdam Records, hailed as “an impressive debut” by the New York Times and given a four star review in Time Out New York. Noted music critic Steve Smith called it “that rare anomaly: a jazz-and-poetry record that sounds utterly natural and convincing” and later named it one of the top ten releases of the year in Time Out New York. Sadigursky has also appeared as a sideman on numerous recordings for labels such as Fresh Sound/New Talent, Playscape Recordings, Chonta Records, and World Culture Music.