Sam was born in London in 1970 to a musical family his mother, father and sister all being professional musicians. Sam studied classical music at the Colchester institute for 2 years from 1986 where he attained grade 8 Piano, grade 8 theory of music and two ‘A’ levels (Theory and Practical) in music. Sam then graduated with a 1st in Jazz and Contemporary music from the City of Leeds College of music in 1991. (1st study: Piano / Keyboards. 2nd study: Arranging).
As a professional musician Sam has worked in many areas of the music industry, below are listed just some of his work credits as either a Keyboard player, Pianist, or Musical Director:
 
PERFORMER:
STAR ACTS: Boney M, Brotherhood of Man, George McRae, The Real Thing, The Commitments, The Drifters, The Contours, Odyssey, Rose Royce, JTQ, Jackie Graham.
SHOW BANDS: Sisters of Soul, Reach Out, Sweet Home Chicago, Tribute to the Carpenters, Stars in their eyes ‘Magic of Motown’ & ‘Legends of Rock’, Walk Right Back, Tribute to Dusty Springfield, Heart & Soul, Elvis ‘That’s the way it was’ & ‘King Rocker’ shows.
THEATRE: Newpalm Productions (Musical Director for Pantomime at Chelmsford civic theatre for 16 years plus many other shows including; ‘Rocky Horror Show’, ‘Me & My Girl’, ‘Joseph’ and ‘Peter Pan’. Born to Perform (M.D. 4 years), Barry Stacie Productions (M.D. for numerous children’s shows),
Keyboard player for many shows including; ‘West Side Story’, ‘Grease’, ‘Chess’, ‘Anything Goes’.
FUNCTION BANDS:  Sweet Freedom, Masquerade, What is Hip, Take 5, New Dimension, Prophecy, Tony Evans Orchestra, Alvin Jones Band, John Chapman Orchestra.
JAZZ: The Claire Harper Quartet / Duo, New Shoes, The Fellowship of Funk, Export, Glenn Miller Orchestra (Europe), Graham Hunter Quartet, Zak Barrett Quartet, Rob Hughes Quartet, Steve Creese Quintet, Mervyn Wright Big Band, Sam Edwards Trio.
 
ARRANGER / COMPOSER:
Barrie Stacey Productions
BBC
Boney M
Born To Perform
Capital Radio
Claire Harper Quartet
Essex FM
Fulham Palace
Heart & Soul
Hylands House (Chelmsford Council)
New Shoes
Newpalm Productions
North Star Music
Prophecy
Reach Out
Sisters of Soul
Tiffany Theatre College
Zak Barrett Quartet
 
Sam is a registered member of the P.R.S.
 
RECORDING:
Extensive studio and live recording work with many of the above-mentioned artists.
Several Albums and CDs’ available including Sam’s own Album, ‘LOOKING BOTH WAYS’ (1998), two albums with The Claire Harper Quartet, ‘THE CLAIRE HARPER QUARTET’ (2000) and ‘CRY ME A RIVER’ (2001), New Shoes ‘SEE YOU ON THE ICE’ (2002) and The Zak Barrett Quartet’s ‘XI by IV’ (2002) and ‘JAZZLIGHTING’ (2006).