Carol Sams (born 1945) is an American composer based in the Seattle area. She earned a Master of Arts in Music from Mills College and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Washington. One of her teachers was Darius Milhaud. In 1976 her opera, Salome, Daughter of Herodias, was premiered at the National Opera Association Convention in Seattle. In 1983 her children's opera Beauty and the Beast was premiered in Los Angeles with Henry Holt conducting. Her opera The Pied Piper of Hamelin was commissioned by the Tacoma Opera, and was premiered by the company in 1993 and repeated in 1994. Her works have also been performed in concerts by the Seattle Chamber Singers, the Everett Chorale, the Northwest Boychoir, the Washington Composers Forum, and the University of Washington Contemporary Group among others. Soprano Janeanne Houston released a CD "So Much Beauty" which contained several songs by Carol Sams. References External links Official Website of Carol Sams 1945 births 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers American classical composers American women classical composers American opera composers Living people Mills College alumni Pupils of Darius Milhaud University of Washington School of Music alumni 20th-century American women musicians 21st-century American women musicians 20th-century women composers 21st-century women composers