Sam-Ang Sam

{{Western name order|Sam Sam-Ang}}

{{Infobox musical artist

|background=non_vocal_instrumentalist

|native_name=សំ សំអាង

|native_name_lang=khm

|current_member_of={{Plainlist|

• Apsara Ensemble
• Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble

}}

|birth_date={{birth based on age as of date |44|1994|07|01}}}}

Sam-Ang Sam ({{langx|km|សំ សំអាង}}, {{lang|km-Latn|Sâm Sâm’ang}}) is a Cambodian-American ethnomusicologist and 1994 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (as part of the Apsara Ensemble) in 1998.{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/501/|title=Macarthur Fellows / Meet the Class of 1994 : Sam-Ang Sam |date=1 July 1994 |access-date=2017-02-25}}{{cite web |url= https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/apsara-ensemble |title= NEA National Heritage Fellowships, Apsara Ensemble|author= |work= NEA|date= 2013-01-24|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=18 November 2018 }}

Sam-Ang Sam and his wife Chan Moly Sam spent "more than two decades" (as of 1993) "performing, teaching, researching, and documenting" their native country's music and dances.{{cite journal |last1= Shapiro|first1= Toni|last2= Sam|first2= Sam-Ang|last3= Bishop|first3= Naomi Hawes|last4= Bishop|first4= John|last5= Sam|first5= Chan Moly|last6= Hay|first6= Somaly|last7= Sam|first7= Malene|last8= Shapiro|first8= Sophiline|last9= Sokhon|first9= Nareine|last10= Tes|first10= Sam-Ouen|date=1993–1994 |title=Khmer Court Dance (videotape) |journal=Asian Music |volume=25 |number= 1/2|pages= 322–326|doi= 10.2307/834227|jstor= 834227}} Having studied in Cambodia, they were in the Philippines when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975, and escaped the genocide that killed an estimated 90 percent of the country's musicians.{{cite news |last=Leitsinger |first=Miranda |date=11 November 2004 |title=Ethnic Music Revival Aims for High Note |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502443/cambodian_music_samang_sam/ |work= Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |access-date= 18 November 2018|quote=It has been estimated that up to 90% of Cambodia's musicians died...}} He and his wife moved to the United States, and Sam-Ang got his doctorate in ethnomusicology in 1998 from Wesleyan University.{{cite news |last=Larson |first=Donna |date= 14 April 2005|title= Cross-cultural 'Seasons of Migration'|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502491/samang_sam_cds_echoes_fromthe_palace/ |work=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |access-date= 18 November 2018}} He and his wife performed in various locations in the United States the between 1979 and 2005 with a dance troupe of Cambodian dancers.{{cite news |last=Spitzer |first= John|date=12 November 1979 |title=Troupe Dances for Cambodia |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502138/sam_angsam_and_moly_sam/ |work= The Ithaca Journal|location=Ithaca, New York }}{{cite news |author= |date=6 February 1994 |title= Apsara Ensemble |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502360/samang_sam_chan_moly_sam_18_members/ |work= The Des Moines Register|location= Des Moines, Iowa|access-date= 18 November 2018}} Their own performing troupe was called the Apsara Ensemble.

As founder of Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, he has released several albums for sale in mainstream American markets in an attempt to revive Classical Khmer music and stimulate interest in the various Cambodian performing arts.{{cite web|url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sam-ang-sam-ensemble-mn0000833463|author=Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble|title=Discography|website=AllMusic |access-date=18 November 2018}}