With being compared to Duke Ellington and Maurice Ravel by The New York Times,
Harold O'Neal FRSA (pianist, producer, speaker, and social entrepreneur), has marked
his place among this generation's greatest pianists and composers. He has been
profiled and featured by multiple publications and programs, including Forbes, NPR's All
Things Considered, The New Yorker, Fortune Magazine, and the 92nd St Y: 7 Days Of
Genius series. He has been granted fellowship to the Royal Society of the Arts, with
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a patron, and recently played a role as a creative
expert for Pixar's Academy Award winning film, Soul – with his stories being a resource
to the filmmaking process.
As a music producer, O'Neal has worked with various artists, including Busta Rhymes,
Miguel, Jennifer Hudson, Aloe Blacc, Damien Rice, Ne-Yo, Jay Z, and was a featured
artist and music arranger for Amnesty International's "Electric Burma", a live televised
DVD concert featuring U2 and Bob Geldof.
"He comes with a full, orchestral piano sound, rippling, weaving, punching like Kenny Kirkland's solos did in the 1990s."
BEN RATLIFF, The New York Times
As a speaker and social entrepreneur, Harold has shared his voice with leaders in
innovation, including TIME, Salesforce, The Future Of StoryTelling, Google, McKinsey &
Company, United Nations Ambassadors, Salesforce, The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, and The World Economic Forum at Davos. Recently, Harold was an invited
speaker and facilitator at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, where he is currently developing a
social entrepreneurship initiative.
"In addition to O’Neal’s spontaneity, he’s one of the most distinctive, creative, insightful
musicians at work today.”
ROB WOLCOTT, Forbes