Chan Moly Sam (1953-) from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is a researcher, teacher, and performance artist. She studied at the Royal University of Fine Arts under Chheng Phon. Chan Moly and her husband, Sam-Ang Sam, fled to the United States in response to the Khmer Rouge of the 1970s. In 1986, Chan Moly and Sam-Ang formed the Apsara Ensemble, to help keep their heritage a living part of Cambodian life in the US. It remains the country's premier Cambodian performing-arts ensemble.

Sam-Ang Sam (1950-), from Pursat Province, Cambodia, is an ethnomusicologist, teacher, researcher, and performance artist. Sam-Ang earned a BA and an MA in composition and later a doctorate in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In addition to the Apsara Ensemble, he founded the Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, which he has used as a platform to help revive Classical Khmer music and increase public interest in Cambodian performing arts throughout the world.