“Each day, when I open my own Steinway B to begin rehearsing, or when I start teaching on the Steinways at Eastman, it feels like I am engaging a life-long best friend as a collaborator in the process of learning, teaching, and performing great music. From the early moments of learning a new work to the final stages of polishing and refining repertoire for performance, I depend on my Steinway as a source of inspiration.”

Douglas Humpherys