Samuel Garrett

Samuel Garrett is a composer, artist, and educator based in Baltimore, MD, known for his solo and ensemble works and music for film. Garrett 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. Other forthcoming projects include experimental opera God Rot, a collaboration with author B.R. Yeager, and horror film Gruenfeld.

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 attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he studied with Stuart Saunders Smith and Linda Dusman.

In addition to his work as a composer, Garrett is interested in the science of aesthetic experience in relation to the brain and body. He works in the field of neuroaesthetics and lectures on aesthetics and the brain at Johns Hopkins University.