This award-winning musicologist, internationally recognized concert pianist, and London-based popular public speaker talks about her first book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene, published by the University of Illinois Press in November 2024. Ege is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, and she is a leading scholar of African American composer Florence B. Price within the context of the Black Chicago Renaissance (1930-1950) and Black women’s dynamic networks of advocacy, empowerment, and uplift. In 2018, Ege released her debut album, Four Women, featuring the music of pioneering women composers Price, Margaret Bonds, Carol Kapralova, and Ethel Bilsland, and she has released several critically acclaimed albums since then. Samantha Ege was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member Sonja Williams.