Cello
Since moving to Canberra in 2017, Samuel Payne has been a regular performer with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and in demand as a chamber musician and teacher.
Samuel studied cello with Susan Blake and Julian Smiles at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and with Howard Penny at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.
A keen orchestral musician, he was a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and went on to play with many of Australia’s top orchestras, including the Opera Australia Orchestra, the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and the Sydney Symphony Sinfonia. In 2015, Samuel took part in the Australian World Orchestra’s tour to India as an academy student, with conductor Zubin Mehta.
Samuel has played in masterclasses for cellists Steven Isserlis, Gautier Capuçon, Alban Gerhardt and Torlief Thedéen, as well as chamber music classes with the Borodin, Australian and Goldner String Quartets and the Tinalley Quartet.
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