Sam-Ang Sam

Sam Sam-Ang (b. 8 Jan 1950, Pursat Province, Cambodia) is an ethnomusicologist, teacher, researcher, and performance artist. 

Sam-Ang earned a BA and an MA in composition and later a doctorate in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In addition to the Apsara Ensemble, he founded the Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, which he has used as a platform to help revive Classical Khmer music and increase public interest in Cambodian performing arts.

The Ensemble was named NEA National Heritage Fellow in 1998, in Fort Washington, Maryland, USA.

From left to right, Chan Moly Sam, Tes, and Sam-Ang Sam (1998).