Samuel Sanders, born on June 27, 1937, in the United States, was an American classical collaborative pianist and pedagogue. After undergoing surgery for a congenital heart condition at age nine, Sanders studied at Hunter College and earned a master's degree from the Juilliard School, studying solo piano under Irwin Freundlich and Martin Canin, and accompanying under Sergius Kagen. Sanders collaborated with prominent classical musicians such as Joshua Bell, Håkan Hagegård, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Itzhak Perlman, Rachel Barton Pine, Leonard Rose, Beverly Sills, and Robert White. With Perlman, Sanders won two Grammy Awards in 1981 for the albums The Spanish Album and Music for Two Violins. Sanders also formed the Díaz-Sanders Duo with Chilean cellist Andrés Díaz. He founded and served as artistic director of the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and taught at the Juilliard School and the Peabody Institute. Sanders died from liver failure on July 9, 1999, at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
