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Ben Sieben is a versatile pianist working in Houston, specializing in Collaborative Piano (piano accompaniment, and vocal coaching). While possessing much experience in jazz, rock, contemporary christian music, traditional church music, and country music, Ben’s career now centers around the classical music world: choral music, opera, chamber music, and duo collaboration. He has done work for various institutions and organizations around Houston, including Houston Grand Opera Co, Operativo, Houston Saengerbund, Lone Star College, the GHA Music Theater Auditions, Houston’s First Baptist Church, and the Houston Symphony Chorus. In 2021, Ben performed a series of solo piano concerts in the Greater Houston Area. And in 2022 he organized a similar local concert tour, this time joined by cellist Christoph Wagner and mezzo-soprano Emily Howes Heilman.

Ben holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Piano Performance from Houston Baptist University and the University of Utah respectively as well as a master's degree in Collaborative Piano from the University of Colorado Boulder. His teachers have included Melissa Marse, Heather Conner, Jeremy Reger, Margaret McDonald, and Alexandra Nguyen.

Ben is passionate about collaborating with other music makers in various environments. A gig is never just a gig when other musicians are involved — it is relational. Ben loves to help young musicians grow in their sense of musicality, life, and musical teamwork. When not at the piano, Ben also enjoys running, skiing, craft beer, Houston’s food scene, and travel. Choir tours and mission trips have taken him to Mexico, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Quebec, and Kenya.


As poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation. Art captures the eternal in the everyday, and it is the eternal that feeds soul—the whole world in a grain of sand.
— Thomas Moore