Sam Dorsey is Professor of Music and Humanities at Norfolk State University. He holds a Master of Music Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University where his studies earned him the Academic Scholar Award for the School of the Arts. He has studied guitar with Jesus Silva and Michael Lorimer, and has attended Master Classes with Andrés Segovia. President and Music Director of the Tidewater Classical Guitar Society, he has been a moving force in bringing artists of international acclaim to this area. He has performed with the Virginia Symphony, Virginia Opera, Virginia Stage Company, Virginia Chorale, Tidewater Classic Guitar Society, on WHRO television, and as a solo artist throughout the United States and in Switzerland, Italy, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. Mr. Dorsey recently completed his doctorate at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was the recipient of the Paul Hanly Furfey Scholarship.
The Virginian Pilot wrote of him, "Sam Dorsey is a comic chameleon with a classical bent ... a Renaissance man of the here and now." Hear, hear! Those of us who know him recognize that this comments on an unexpected combination: a gifted musician who happens to have a well developed sense of humor.
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