Sam began working with Arts Global and alongside its President, Heather de Haes, in August 2011.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Studies degree from the Queensland Conservatorium in 2007, furthering his studies and receiving first class honors from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2009. He is a recipient of the Brian Boak Developing Artist Award and Dame Joan Sutherland Grant.
In 2010 he was awarded an Australian-American Fulbright Scholarship, enabling him to study trumpet performance with Mark Gould at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, along with conducting. He has recently graduated with a Master of Music degree.