06/05/2009 Mike Wheeler

http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2009/05/rpo.htm

After the main concert came the first in a planned series of short late-night performances at the Royal Concert Hall, this one featuring jazz pianist Sam Hogarth. As well as a couple of standards, by Gershwin and Bernstein, he gave us his very inventive takes on Prokofiev's 'Montagues and Capulets' and the Ravel concerto. He even managed to graft a characteristic chord progression from the Ravel first movement onto the opening of 'I Got Rhythm'. Uri Caine, you've got competition.

31/07/2008 Ian Kingsbury

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm?id=2239

First to park his prodigiously talented glutes on the piano stool was 24 year-old Sam Hogarth, currently studying for a masters degree in Musicology at Oxford. Sam opened with Thelonious Monk’s Straight, No Chaser, a bold choice methought, suspecting that a more technical approach (think McCoy Tyner or Ahmed Jamal) would most impress the four judges. Sam’s performance included a stride piano piece and a free jazz composition of his own, before ending with a dainty ballad and a bluesy number, all played with consummate precision, grace and aplomb.