Sam Reider

After studying jazz piano, composer Sam Reider branched into folk and bluegrass, playing accordion and piano as a sideman, soloist, and with his group the Human Hands. Combining these genres with elements of jazz and modern composition, he and his backing six-piece released The Human Hands EP in 2020. Reider returned to his roots with the solo piano album Petrichor in 2022. Raised in San Francisco, California with access to his grandfather's 1918 Steinway piano, Reider played from a young age. It was later, while studying at Columbia University, that he became fascinated with...