Graham Steinman is a multi-instrumentalist who weaves lush harmony, soft spoken lyrics and gentle groove into the folk and jazz traditions. Inspired by musical contrast, he marries the old and the new, the consonant and dissonant, the acoustic and the electric. He works to give life to the thoughts of a musing mind; finding meditation, catharsis, and joy through song.

Experimenting, innovating, and composing for years, Graham cultivates an ever-evolving sound and experience for his audiences. His 2017 EP release Glass Orchards is an introspective folk-influenced journey through impressions of loss, beauty, and chaos. His 2022 release West Fox Island is a reflection on healing, comfort - beautiful yet stagnant - and the fluidity of needs in love. Alongside his work as a solo artist, Graham also composes and performs with his group Cedar Symphony, a five-piece singer-songwriter chamber neosoul ensemble which invites listeners to enter into a gentle, tonal landscape, filled with instrumental harmonies and jazz-influenced interplay.

Steinman graduated the Guelph music program with a focus in jazz guitar, earning the Norman and Audrey Harley Music Scholarship (2021) and the Gloria Guthrie Memorial Music Prize (2022) for the music student with the highest cumulative average. At Guelph, he cultivated his love for music — both improvised and composed — exploring extended harmony and its emotive capacities, especially in the context of the arranged ensemble. With his major in music, Steinman minored in anthropology, giving him passionate insights into the ethnocentric nature of Western music pedagogy, which he addressed in his undergrad thesis “Anthropological Perspectives On Structural Ethnocentricity In Traditional Music Theory” (2021), which was awarded the Honours Music Prize (2022).

As a composer, performer, arranger, producer, teacher, and student, Steinman has developed a broad understanding of what music can be, and the multitude of meanings it has. Above all else, he looks forward to discovering the sounds that each day brings.