Samuel Garrett is an American composer based in Baltimore, MD. Heralded as “brilliant and haunting,” his work explores aesthetic and spiritual extremity through intuitive modes of composition.
Garrett holds advanced degrees in composition and musicology from Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he completed his culminating thesis on the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the ineffable in the context of the work of French philosopher Georges Bataille.
He attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he studied with Stuart Saunders Smith and Linda Dusman.
He teaches music composition at Community College of Baltimore County.
