Fall 2024

Sameer and a binational youth orchestra from the San Diego Youth Symphony and the Sinfónica Juvenil de Tijuana are featured in a story on CBS Weekend News. The segment discusses the power of music to transcend borders and create meaningful, lasting friendships. Click here to watch!

Summer 2024

Sameer is profiled in the September 2024 issue of Strings Magazine as part of the side-by-side project he founded between his two roles at the La Jolla Symphony and the San Diego Youth Symphony. Click here to read!

Fall 2023:

Sameer is a Classical Californian on Classical California/KUSC. Tune in on Wednesday, November 8 at 7pm PST to listen to him share his curated playlist of music that inspires him.

Sameer returns for his third visit to the Florida Orchestra, leading concerts on their Coffee Concerts series. Click here for concert information!

As part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, Sameer and the San Diego Youth Symphony will perform at San Diego’s Rady Shell, in a program that includes music by Anna Clyne, Andrea Casarrubios, and Michael-Thomas Foumai

Summer 2023:

Sameer is named Music Director and Orchestra Conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. Click to read the story in the San Diego Union-Tribune, in the La Jolla Light, Broadway World, the Violin Channel, or Memeteria.

Sameer makes his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, leads the world premiere of Reena Email’s Rosa del Sal at the Wintergreen Festival in Virginia, and returns to the New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestra Institute. In addition, at the invitation of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Sameer and his wife, Shannon, are guests at The White House.

Spring 2023:

Sameer is named Musical America’s New Artist of the Month for April. He returns to the Florida Orchestra and the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, and his work is profiled in the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Winter 2023:

Sameer makes debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their MusicNow series, and leads the world premiere of William Harvey’s Seven Decisions of Gandhi with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he leads his first performances as Artistic Director of the San Diego Youth Symphony.

Fall 2022:

Sameer joins the roster of 8va Music Consultancy.

Summer 2022:

Sameer joins the San Diego Youth Symphony as Artistic Director. For nearly 80 years, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS), a division of KeyNote, has served as a catalyst for investing in the future of thousands of young San Diegans through the study and performance of music. Through SDYS’ flagship youth orchestra program in historic Balboa Park, its community engagement programs across San Diego County, and its early childhood music curriculum, SDYS is San Diego’s comprehensive cradle-to-college music education provider, serving thousands of young musicians and their families every year.