Sam Kennedy is a graduate of Cambridge University and the Royal Northern College of Music studying violin with Howard Davis, Arisa Fujita and the viola with Asdis Valdimarsdottir. After graduating Sam joined the European Union Baroque Orchestra, followed by two years playing with the band Elbow, both experiences helping to form a varied and eclectic career. He has performed with orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, St Paul’s Sinfonia, The Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium and Charivari Agréable. As well as Elbow, Sam has played with Lana del Rey, Madness, Tom Chaplin, Beverly Knight, Alison Moyet and Heather Small.
Sam’s love of theatre has also taken him into working for cabaret act Graffiti Classics as well as in the orchestra pits of Ghost the Musical, Thursford Christmas Spectacular, The Bridges of Madison County, Les Misérables and Cinderella by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
He owes particular gratitude to Margaret Faultless for her classes in baroque music at the University of Cambridge and to Walter Reiter and Kati Debretzeni’s shared baroque violin class at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.