Young American will release ‘Voyages’, his debut full-length album in June. Young American pianist Conrad Tao has signed an exclusive recording contract with EMI and will release his debut full-length album, ‘Voyages’, in June. His first release on EMI, an iTunes exclusive EP in February 2012, was part of the ‘Juilliard Sessions’ series and included works [...]
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On June 11th, 2013, Conrad will celebrate his nineteenth birthday by kicking off the UNPLAY Festival, a three-day event conceived and curated by the pianist/composer. He will also release his debut full-length album on EMI Classics, entitled Voyages, featuring works by Ravel, Rachmaninov and Meredith Monk, as well as Conrad’s own compositions vestiges, for solo [...]
“Aspen did not give Conrad Tao the inclination to be an uncommonly curious and adventurous musician. By the age of 5, living in Illinois and years before he even knew of Aspen, Tao was playing both piano and violin and composing scores, beginning with his own rendition of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” But Aspen [...]
Two Avery Fisher Career Grants Awarded for 2012 On May 22nd at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Nathan Leventhal, the Program’s Chairman, Charles Avery Fisher and Nancy Fisher announced two 2012 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients: Benjamin Beilman, violinist and Conrad Tao, pianist The Avery Fisher Artist Program, established by the late Avery Fisher as part of [...]
Conrad is the 2011 Soloist-Prize winner of Germany’s Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern!!! “34 young soloists and 10 ensembles applied to the 35 “Junge Elite”-concerts in 2011 to win one of the wanted junior-prizes from Festspiele MV. Two of these prizes were given to two talented young Americans. The soloist-prize was given to the American pianist Conrad Tao [...]
“Tao [is] naturally gregarious, curious, and smart. He’s also a composer. On his debut recording, just out on EMI via iTunes, he plays his confidently poetic Three Songs, which hold their own with a pair of Debussy preludes and Stravinsky’s Three Movements From “Petrushka.” Already, he’s moving into more ambitious compositional forms. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra recently asked him [...]
Conrad’s first commercially available recording, released by EMI Classics, is now available for purchase on iTunes. His installation in The Juilliard Sessions consists of works by Debussy, Stravinsky, and himself. View it in the iTunes store here.
Conrad’s performance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, hailed as “a blazing debut” by The Detroit News, has been posted in its entirety on the DSO’s YouTube channel. Watch it below:
Conrad Tao has been commissioned by the Dallas Symphony and Jaap van Zweden to write the official piece to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Quite an honour for someone whose (Chinese) parents were not even born at the time, but the decision was unanimous after Conrad’s mesmerizing success there last May… [via IMG Artists]
…Needless to say, Tao does not have an average college student’s life. Often, he said, juggling his schoolwork and performing career can be “incredibly frustrating,” especially since he does most of his schoolwork on the road. Having completed his high school studies entirely through independent study without tutors or teachers, Tao said that he is [...]
