with Daniel Zezelj which debuted at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and also received a Grammy nomination. Real Enemies, released in 2016, which was also based on a multimedia show debuted at BAM, was also nominated for a Grammy in the big band category. In 2020, Sadigursky became a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. He is a recipient of grants and awards from Chamber Music America, the Jerome Foundation, ASCAP, and the Puffin Foundation, and his music has been reviewed by The New York Times, JazzTimes, the Fort Worth Weekly, All About Jazz, and the Detroit Free Press. He has been a guest on WNYC's Ear to Ear, The Jazz Session, Minnesota Public Radio's The Jazz Connection, and WNYC's Soundcheck, and has performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, London Jazz Festival, Moers Festival (Germany), Radio France, Montreal Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, BMW Jazz Festival (Brazil), Winter Jazz Fest (NYC), Jazz a Parque (Bogota, Colombia), and the Wangaratta Jazz Festival (Australia), among others. From 2017-2019, he was the onstage clarinetist for the acclaimed Broadway musical The Band's Visit, which won 10 Tony Awards, the Grammy award for Cast Album of the Year, and a Daytime Emmy award for their appearance on the Today Show. He is featured on the soundtrack to the 2004 film Seeing Other People, Clint Eastwood's Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years, Juan Fisher's Buscando a Miguel, the 2013 HBO documentary Six by Sondheim, the incidental music for the 2013 Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Knock Down the House, Rebecca Hall's 2021 film Passing and Godfrey Reggio's Once Within a Time (2022). Albums as a leader Sam released his first album as a leader in 2008, The Words Project, which consists of his original musical settings of poetry, and features vocalists Monika Heidemann, Becca Stevens, Heather Masse, and Noam Weinstein, along with Sadigursky (saxophone, clarinets, and alto flute), Pete Rende (piano/Rhodes/pump organ), Nate Radley (guitar), Eivind Opsvik (bass), Tommy Crane (drums), and Robert Burkhart (cello). The album was selected as one of the top ten releases of the year by critic Steve Smith of Time Out New York, who also named it the vocal album of the year. The album features settings of poems by Osip Mandelstam, Paul Auster, Marina Tsvetaeva, Czeslaw Milosz, Penelope Shuttle, Sylvia Plath, Donald Justice, and Maxine Kumin. Sadigursky followed this album with Words Project II in