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Official Trailer: "Sapiens - A Human History on the Piano feat. Sean Hickey
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🎥 Here is the trailer for our new eps featuring Sean Hickey, Composer/Record Label Executive
Composer Sean Hickey joins The Piano Pod to discuss Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for the Piano — his monumental piano cycle inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book.
From imagined orders and human cooperation to empire, biology, AI, and the future of artistic sustainability, this conversation explores what it means to create — and remain human — in a rapidly accelerating world.
Performed by pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev, Sapiens translates sweeping philosophical questions into sound, structure, and silence.
This episode moves from macro-history to the deeply personal — from Detroit and electric guitar to leading major international record labels — and ultimately asks:
What allows music to endure?
📆 Join the premiere tomorrow, Tuesday, February 24, at 8:00 PM ET.
📺 Set a reminder and join us live via YouTube: https://youtu.be/sx0nR48wNYg
🎧 Listen on your favorite podcast platforms: https://linktr.ee/ThePianoPodAudio
📖 Read our blog review on Substack: https://thepianopod.substack.com/p/meet-our-guest-sean-hickey-composer