Sam Salem is an award-winning composer and artistic director. He creates audiovisual works for performers, electronics and video which challenge traditional notions of concert presentation and instrumental virtuosity. His work is fundamentally psychogeopraphical, informed by site-specific research – the layers of myth and history that he uncovers form the building blocks of his work. He is a founding member of Distractfold Ensemble and co-director of Another Sky. He has recently written for Mark Knoop, Noam Bierstone, Weston Olencki and Linda Jankowska, as well as a new work, The Museum of the Lowest Place (2026), which was supported by the PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund. He is PRiSM Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.
https://www.osamahsalem.co.uk