Soundboard
The Steinway & Sons Podcast
Moira Lo Bianco
Pianist/composer and Steinway Artist Moira Lo Bianco speaks to the imaginative possibilities of improvisation across musical genres and styles revealed in her album Imago on the Steinway & Sons label. She was interviewed at New York City’s Steinway Hall with Ben Finane, our Editor in Chief and Editor in Chief at Steinway’s award-winning online music magazine listenmusicculture.com.
‘As far back as Gregorian chants, the vox organalis was improvised. All the musical forms that we play — the Preludes, the Fantasies — they too were improvised.’
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