Graham Steinman is a Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) based multi-instrumentalist and sound designer who weaves lush harmony, soft sung lyrics and gentle groove into the folk, jazz, and experimental traditions. Inspired by musical contrast, he blends 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.

Steinman has cultivated 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.

His debut album "migration's only natural" follows the journey of a kingfisher on its odyssey from northern coast to southern shore. Each landscape it traverses unveils a new sonic world, spanning from neo-soul to chamber jazz, synth pop to ambient, echoing the rhythms of its passage over land, through air, across (and even beneath) the water, until it reaches its long-awaited destination. The album was recognized as an Exclaim! Magazine Staff Pick.

In 2026, Steinman has expanded his practice into immersive and spatial audio. His collaboration with filmmaker Tara Rose Morris, Flicker & Gambol, is a spatialized fulldome short film that has been selected for SATfest (Montreal), Dome Under Film Festival (Melbourne), and Montevideo International Fulldome Festival (Uruguay).

Awards

Norman and Audrey Harley Music Scholarship (2021)

Gloria Guthrie Memorial Music Prize (2022)

Honours Music Prize (2022) for his (2021) thesis, “Anthropological Perspectives On Structural Ethnocentricity In Traditional Music Theory”