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Soundboard

Steinway & Sons
Jazz
Improvisation
Nels Cline
Creative Process
Wilco
Music Composition
Dmitri Shostakovich
Big Ears Festival
Chopin International Piano Competition
Duke Ellington
Coltrane
Ambient Music
Electronic Music
Sunny War
Pentatone
Eunike Tanzil
Composition
Live Performance
Sound Design
Van Cliburn

Soundboard features conversations on artistry and craftsmanship between Ben Finane, Director of Content at Steinway & Sons, and distinguished pianists, musicians, artists, and creatives. Soundboard seeks out inspiration, hones in on the creative process, parses influences, and attempts to diagnose artistic greatness.

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Latest Episodes

'Music Always Serves a Purpose'

- From motif to structure: using five to ten emotional adjectives, exploring ideas at the piano, and sketching a timeline for a piece’s intensity and climax.

- How improvisation can reveal unexpected directions, and ho... more

'Simple, Beautiful Pieces'

Steinway Artist and composer Jeff Beal discusses writing for solo piano.

'This Is How It Should Be'

Duke Ellington’s granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington, is a choreographer and dancer as well as the founder, CEO and Artistic Director of The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts in New York City. She joins us to talk about the ... more

'The Search That Will Never Stop'

Pianist Alexandre Kantorow discusses his musical family, piano as orchestra, what to practice, creating a recital program, and what he's learned so far.

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Recent Guests

Eunike Tanzil
Composer and pianist educated at Juilliard, writing concert music, albums, and film scores
Episode: Soundboard: Eunike Tanzil
Jeff Beal
Steinway artist, composer known for House of Cards theme and New York Etudes
Platoon Records (via label release)
Episode: Soundboard: Jeff Beal
Mercedes Ellington
Duke Ellington's granddaughter; choreographer and dancer; founder/CEO/artistic director of the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts
Duke Ellington Center for the Arts
Episode: Soundboard: Happy Birthday, Duke! (with Mercedes Ellington)
Alexandre Kantorow
Pianist; winner of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition and 2024 Gilmore Artist Award
Independent pianist / Steinway artist
Episode: Soundboard: Alexandre Kantorow
Sullivan Fortner
Steinway artist, Grammy-winning pianist
Steinway & Sons
Episode: Soundboard: Sullivan Fortner
Marie Kodama
Steinway artist, competition jury member
Steinway & Sons
Episode: Soundboard: The Van Cliburn Legacy
Lise de La Salle
Steinway artist, juror
Steinway & Sons
Episode: Soundboard: The Van Cliburn Legacy
Gabriella Montero
Steinway artist, competitor assessment
Steinway & Sons
Episode: Soundboard: The Van Cliburn Legacy
Paul Lewis
Jury foreman, discussing competition insights
Steinway & Sons
Episode: Soundboard: The Van Cliburn Legacy

Host

Ben Finane
Host of Soundboard; Director of Content at Steinway & Sons; producer and creator of conversations with pianists, musicians, and creatives.

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 47 ratings
  • Great listen

    Thanks for these smart conversations. I appreciate the guests and questions.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    LPchoreogrqph
    United States5 years ago
  • Amazing Podcast!

    I absolutely love this podcast! As a musician, and a piano technician, this podcast merged my two loves in such a fabulous way. Music talk and piano talk and it is just amazing. Please keep this going!!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    trumpetbwf12
    United States7 years ago
  • A+ content

    This is an excellent podcast, with a roster of guests you might not always expect from Steinway & Sons! Some big names (Billy Joel, Bill Murray, Regina Spektor) and some lesser-known, across all creative disciplines, and all with interesting perspectives on their craft. The host is particularly good at drawing fresh insight from each guest.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    caaaaaaaroline
    United States7 years ago

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The show blends deep craft talk with accessible storytelling, appealing to both musicians and general art lovers.
Guests vary widely, offering both renowned names and rising talents with thoughtful perspectives.
Listeners praise the host's ability to draw fresh insights from guests.

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Soundboard: Eunike Tanzil
Q: Tell me about the delightful Hum Me A Melody series, which is on your social media and elsewhere. Tell me how you came up with that.
After moving to Los Angeles during the writers' strike, Tanzil was looking for work and drew inspiration from street-interview videos. She began asking strangers to hum melodies, then composing from their ideas and sharing the results online.
Soundboard: Eunike Tanzil
Q: Do you use elements from this process if you're scoring a film? For you, is the compositional process for a through-composed composition the same as the process to scoring a film?
Tanzil says she still begins with a motif or theme, but film themes are shaped by a character's qualities and cues must fit what is happening onscreen. Film composition therefore shares some elements with concert composition but differs in its constraints and structure.
Soundboard: Jeff Beal
Q: Jeff, tell me about your New York etudes.
Beal explains how moving to New York and embracing piano-focused composition led to the New York Etudes, their recording trajectory with Platoon/Apple Classical, and how live performance has helped him both grow as a pianist and as a composer.
Soundboard: Sullivan Fortner
Q: How does playing with Theo Croker differ from playing in a trio, and how does you approach change when the rhythm section is absent?
In duo settings there is more latitude to act as or opt out of the rhythm section; when with a trio, he relies on the drums and bass for rhythm and structure, whereas in a duo he can assume more responsibility but also has the option not to.
Soundboard: Sullivan Fortner
Q: How did you go about finding your voice in jazz?
Fortner describes a gradual process from discomfort with soloing to an obsession with exploration, emphasizing understanding the tune's theme and how to develop it through rhythm and harmony, while acknowledging the influence of gospel roots and classical training.

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A thoughtful interview series centered on artistry and craft, featuring conversations with leading pianists, composers, and artists. Episodes explore creative process, interpretation, performance preparation, and the intersection of music history with contemporary practice. Notable strengths include access to top-tier Steinway artists and industry insiders, candid discussions about stagecraft, and deep dives into recital programming, mentorship, and artistic philosophy. The format tends to attract listeners who are serious about craft, performance, and the behind-the-scenes decisions that shape elite music making.

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Soundboard launched 11 years ago and published 85 episodes to date. You can find more information about this podcast including rankings, audience demographics and engagement in our podcast database.

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Recent guests on Soundboard include:

1. Eunike Tanzil
2. Jeff Beal
3. Mercedes Ellington
4. Alexandre Kantorow
5. Sullivan Fortner
6. Marie Kodama
7. Lise de La Salle
8. Gabriella Montero

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