Samuel L Siskind
- Actor
- Music Department
Composer, vocalist, and actor, Samuel L. Siskind is a high school sophomore and a 2022/23 Los Angeles Philharmonic Composing Fellow.
Samuel is an often-featured soloist for the Grammy® Award-Winning National Children's Chorus (NCC), as seen on digital concerts as well as in live performances at venues including David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.
In 2017, Samuel made his Los Angeles Opera debut as Sem in Britten's Noye's Fludde under the musical direction of Maestro James Conlon. On screen, his performance as character, Cody and Soloist for Panis Angelicus is prominent in the independent film The Uncanny (2022). Handpicked by Madonna, he can be seen featured in her music video for God Control directed by Jonas Åkerlund.
Accolades include Best Performance in a Musical as Brett in Children's Letters to God at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center NY and a Best Actor nomination at the 2018 Official Latino Film Festival for his work in Little Angel directed by Wonien Garcia. Samuel can also be heard with the NCC on the LA Phil's Grammy® winning recording of Mahler: Symphony No. 8, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
As a composer, Samuel's work has premiered at Carnegie Hall and venues from historic Royce Hall in Los Angeles to concert halls across Asia. Additionally, in the 2022/23 season, members of the LA Phil will record his works such as, Natural Sounds for solo violin and marimba.
Other pieces in Samuel's catalog have been recorded by producer Matthew Wilder at the iconic Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Samuel's choral piece,The Forest, was selected by the CEO of the NCC to tour Asia in a series of concerts that included the Mapo Arts Center accompanied by the Arborvitae Chamber Orchestra in Seoul, Kyoto Concert Hall and Santori Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The tour culminated in an internationally televised performance at the DMZ in collaboration with musicians from North and South Korea.
Samuel's orchestral waltz, Rain, written when he was 12, was scored for ballet by renowned choreographer Alisher Kasanov and performed under the stars at the Yellowstone International Arts Festival 2020 by Nadia Khan of the Rome Opera Theater.
Samuel has steadily built a body of work which includes Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in 3 movements (2021) and the choral cycle, Release (2022) inspired by recent events from beginning high school during the pandemic, as well as themes from the Book of Psalms and Renaissance composers for the commission by The Golden Bridge, Artistic Director, Suzy Digby, which marks the world premiere of his first commissioned piece, Out from the Deep.
Samuel studies voice and composition with his mentor UCLA Professor Ian Krouse and is working toward his private pilot's license.
Samuel is an often-featured soloist for the Grammy® Award-Winning National Children's Chorus (NCC), as seen on digital concerts as well as in live performances at venues including David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.
In 2017, Samuel made his Los Angeles Opera debut as Sem in Britten's Noye's Fludde under the musical direction of Maestro James Conlon. On screen, his performance as character, Cody and Soloist for Panis Angelicus is prominent in the independent film The Uncanny (2022). Handpicked by Madonna, he can be seen featured in her music video for God Control directed by Jonas Åkerlund.
Accolades include Best Performance in a Musical as Brett in Children's Letters to God at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center NY and a Best Actor nomination at the 2018 Official Latino Film Festival for his work in Little Angel directed by Wonien Garcia. Samuel can also be heard with the NCC on the LA Phil's Grammy® winning recording of Mahler: Symphony No. 8, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
As a composer, Samuel's work has premiered at Carnegie Hall and venues from historic Royce Hall in Los Angeles to concert halls across Asia. Additionally, in the 2022/23 season, members of the LA Phil will record his works such as, Natural Sounds for solo violin and marimba.
Other pieces in Samuel's catalog have been recorded by producer Matthew Wilder at the iconic Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Samuel's choral piece,The Forest, was selected by the CEO of the NCC to tour Asia in a series of concerts that included the Mapo Arts Center accompanied by the Arborvitae Chamber Orchestra in Seoul, Kyoto Concert Hall and Santori Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The tour culminated in an internationally televised performance at the DMZ in collaboration with musicians from North and South Korea.
Samuel's orchestral waltz, Rain, written when he was 12, was scored for ballet by renowned choreographer Alisher Kasanov and performed under the stars at the Yellowstone International Arts Festival 2020 by Nadia Khan of the Rome Opera Theater.
Samuel has steadily built a body of work which includes Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in 3 movements (2021) and the choral cycle, Release (2022) inspired by recent events from beginning high school during the pandemic, as well as themes from the Book of Psalms and Renaissance composers for the commission by The Golden Bridge, Artistic Director, Suzy Digby, which marks the world premiere of his first commissioned piece, Out from the Deep.
Samuel studies voice and composition with his mentor UCLA Professor Ian Krouse and is working toward his private pilot's license.
