Arranger, Conductor & Producer
Arranger & Conductor
Olivia Dean in the Piano Room with the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast live on Radio 2 from BBC Maida Vale Studios.
Sam was commissioned to write the arrangements for Dive, Dangerously Easy (Olivia Dean), and Suzanne (Leonard Cohen cover), as well as conducting the session.
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Sam was commissioned to write an arrangement for the winter 2023 tour of Pete Tong Ibiza Classics with Jules Buckley and the Essential Orchestra.
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James Bay in the Piano Room with the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast live on Radio 2 from BBC Maida Vale Studios.
Sam was commissioned to write the arrangements for Let it Go, All My Broken Pieces (James Bay), and Torn (Natalie Imbruglia cover), as well as conducting the session.
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Composer Josh Hill, under the pseudonym of The Hillside Project with his 2023 album The Available Light.
Sam was commissioned to arrange and/or orchestrate the strings for all tracks on the album, and later for the full ensemble to facilitate the performance of the album live at the launch event in September 2023.
Below is the first single from the album Sparkler Dims
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Jon Hopkins in collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers, and Jules Buckley.
Sam arranged the titles Luna Moth (Contact Note - 2005) and The Wider Sun (Insides - 2009)
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Multi-instrumental duo Tendai+Glen perform in collaboration with Taylor Guitars for their live session 'soundcheck' YouTube series.
Sam arranged the title I Didn't Want Me
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Rampage sound system joined forces with the Jules Buckley Orchestra for a one off event at the Barbican Centre in July 2023.
Sam was commissioned to arrange 2 titles - Party Hard (Dona'eo) and Bottle Over Head (Triniboi Joocie & Wetty Beatz)
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Arranger & Conductor
Sam Gale is young professional arranger, conductor, and producer whose primary focus is linking artists with orchestras to form unlikely collaborations and uniquely curated projects. Sam is grateful to have conducted, and have his arrangements performed and recorded, in some of the UK’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican Centre, Abbey Road Studios, Maida Vale Studios, London's O2 Arena, and Birmingham Symphony Hall.
Trained classically as a trombonist, Sam studied jazz composition/arranging at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is grateful to have had mentorship from Scott Stroman, Jules Buckley, and Simon Wills.
During his time at Guildhall, Sam founded the 85-piece jazz and pop orchestra Capital Orchestra, for which he was their conductor and arranger. Capital Orchestra announced their debut with a 3-part series at LSO St Luke’s before collaborating with London-based jazz quartet Lydian Collective at Cadogan Hall in October 2019. During the pandemic in 2020, Sam initiated several online collaborations for the orchestra featuring Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy, and singer-songwriter Elli Ingram.
Away from Capital Orchestra, Sam is grateful for the versatile work as an arranger and composer. In 2023, his arrangements were featured at the BBC Proms with a programme of music by Jon Hopkins in collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers, and Jules Buckley. Earlier in 2023, he was awarded runner-up in the John Dankworth big band composition prize.