Ben Laude

Praised by the New York Times as an “amazing, absorbing” performer, “superb in pace, tone, and eloquence.”

BEN LAUDE is a concert pianist, music educator, and producer from Austin, Texas. He currently serves as Head of Piano for the online music education platform Tonebase, where he has produced hundreds of lessons and interviews with dozens of world class pianists the likes of Marc-André Hamelin, Garrick Ohlsson, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. An active teacher and presenter for the platform, Laude regularly records tutorials and live workshops on piano repertoire and musicianship skills. Additionally, he produces and hosts weekly creative educational videos about classical piano for the Tonebase Piano YouTube channel, which has attracted more than 10 million views and over 100,000 subscribers in 2022-2023. In the past year he was invited to speak on the intersection of music education and technology at the Cremona Musica Exhibition in Italy and delivered workshops on digital media and content creation to the Orchestra of Americas’ Academy Fellows. Laude holds degrees in piano performance from Rice University and the Juilliard School, and his major teachers included Jerome Lowenthal, Matti Raekallio, Robert Roux, and Eric Hicks. At Juilliard he was the assistant to David Dubal, with whom he co-hosted a 3-part series on Glenn Gould for WWFM and co-founded the New York concert talks series Piano Evenings. An active soloist, Laude has given all-Beethoven and all-Chopin recitals in recent seasons, and this fall is engaged to perform Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the Southern Tier Symphony. The New York Times has described Laude’s playing as “superb in pace, tone, and eloquence” and called his solo performance of Steve Reich’s Piano Phase with Ballet Next an “amazing, absorbing feat.” In his spare time he enjoys beat-boxing with his wife Sasha, watching the NBA, and practicing slowly.