Soundboard

About Soundboard

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.

Publisher

Steinway & Sons

Category

arts · music · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2016

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 84 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Soundboard: Jeff Beal

   Steinway Artist and composer Jeff Beal shares insights into crafting compelling music for solo piano in this interview.

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   29 Apr 2026

   Soundboard: Happy Birthday, Duke! (with Mercedes Ellington)

   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 enduring music of her grandfather and her own journey as an artist.

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   23 Apr 2026

   Soundboard: Alexandre Kantorow

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

Inside a recent episode

Soundboard: Jeff Beal

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It can be a real significant part of one's wellness. I wonder, too, if... It has something to do with this project being for solo piano. And you are allowed to create within this very small world, maybe a more controllable world, a world where you're writing for something that you know you have to play. Right. Mm hmm. You know, we talked about painting yourself into a corner with certain rhythms. But here it's like you've made a grid within which you can paint. And I wonder if that helped in a way control the factors, control the pressure, control the grid. That's very interesting. I hadn't thought about it that way. […]

Who has been a guest on Soundboard

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jeff Beal
• Steve Roach
• Nels Cline

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

38,077,018

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

29 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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