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Official Trailer: Season 6 Finale "Spirit, Body, & Soul" feat. David Berry
Dienstag, 16. Juni 2026 · 2 min
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🎙️ SEASON 6 FINALE TRAILER
How do we bring our full musical selves to the stage?
In the Season 6 finale of The Piano Pod 🎙 (linkedin.com/feed/#), host Yukimi Song sits down with concert pianist, composer, arranger, educator, and artistic leader David Berry for a rich and deeply personal conversation on virtuosity, improvisation, composition, contemporary music, and artistic identity.
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School, Berry has built a multifaceted career as a performer, educator, curator, and advocate. Equally at home with Liszt, George Walker, James P. Johnson, contemporary music, and his own original works, he embodies the spirit of this season's theme: Creativity and Connection.
Join us as we explore what it means to bring heart, soul, and one's authentic musical self to the stage.
🎧 Spirit, Body, and Soul: Pianist David Berry on Virtuosity, Creativity, and Artistic Identity
📅 Premieres Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 8 PM ET
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I think for me, the through line, if I were to say one thing, is just heart. Of how do you put your heart and soul into this? That whatever the task is that you're accomplishing, how do you shine through? How is it something that you feel proud of and something that you feel like you're giving your soul to? As we close season six of The Piano Pod and our theme of creativity and connection, I sit down with concert pianist, composer, arranger, and educator, David Berry.
In this conversation, we explore virtuosity, improvisation, composition, contemporary music, and what it means to bring your full musical self to the stage. I think in this concert, it was just a matter of bringing my full musical self. And then improvisation offers you the unique opportunity to be totally present with that experience and that audience and what the spirit in this room right now. What is it I need to do that speaks to the spirit right now? Finding and sort of living into are two different things. All of those elements of my musical life had always been in the picture and been there. They can live together. That is my authentic musical self.
All of those things, they can find a way to live together in my identity as an artist. Spirit, Body & Soul premieres today, Tuesday, June 16th at 8 p .m. Eastern Time on our YouTube channel with audio available on all major podcast platforms. See you tonight.
