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“Conrad is the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” -New York Magazine

“An explosive force…Tao possesses startling technical elan and an ability to communicate clearly, no matter how thorny a score may become. He also has a hefty dash of charm.” –

David Lang (1957- ) cage (1992) Elliot Carter (1908-2012) Two Thoughts about the Piano (2007) I. Intermittences II Catenaires Julia Wolfe (1958- ) Earring (2000) (1873-1943) Etude-Tableauz in A minor, op.39, no. 2 (1916) wed (1992) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Toccata (1710)

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Piano Sonata (1941) Conrad Tao (1994- ) Iridescence (2012)

Conrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, and has been dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by , a “thoughtful and mature composer” by NPR, and “ferociously talented” by TimeOut New York. Conrad was listed in Forbes’ 30 under 30 list of noteworthy musicians in 2011 (the only classical musician featured), and hailed by renowned music critic Harris Goldsmith as “the most exciting prodigy to ever come my way” (). In June of 2011, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the Department of Education named Conrad a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts awarded him a YoungArts gold medal in music. Later that year, Conrad was named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded every two years highlighting the most promising American pianists of the new generation. In May of 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.

During the 2014-2015 season, Conrad serves as the Symphony Orchestra’s artist-in- residence, performing solo recitals, chamber music, and . He continues his formidable globe-trotting career as a pianist with performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, http://musicinthemountains.org/event/conrad-tao-in-recital/ 1/3 12/1/2015 Music in the Mountains Conrad Tao, In Recital - Music in the Mountains the National Symphony Orchestra of Malaysia, the Royal Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, and the Symphony, among others. He also collaborates with the young musicians of the , whose season he inaugurates in , and the Hawai’i Youth Symphony. In Europe, he will be returning to perform with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in , and the Bern Symphony in Switzerland. He also performs recitals in Europe and throughout the United States with repertoire ranging from Bach to Toru Takemitsu to Julia Wolfe.

On his 19th birthday in June of 2013, Conrad kicked off the inaugural UNPLAY Festival at the powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, which he curated and produced. The festival, designated a “critics’ pick” by Time Out New York and hailed by the New York Times for its “clever organization” and “endlessly engaging” performances, featured Conrad with guest artists performing a wide variety of new works. Across three nights encompassing electroacoustic music, performance art, youth ensembles, and much more, UNPLAY explored the fleeting ephemera of the Internet, the possibility of a 21st-century canon, and music’s role in social activism and critique. That month, Conrad, a Warner Classics recording artist, also released Voyages, his first full-length for the label, declared a “spiky debut” by the New Yorker’sAlex Ross. Of the album, NPR wrote: “Tao proves himself to be a musician of deep intellectual and emotional means – as the thoughtful programming on this album…proclaims.”

In November 2013, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra premiered Conrad’s new orchestral composition, “The World Is Very Different Now”, commissioned in observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Described by the New York Times as “shapely and powerful”, work is the latest in his accomplished career as a composer, which has featured eight consecutive ASCAP Young Composer Awards, the Carlos Surinach Prize from BMI, and an oeuvre that already includes everything from symphonic music to string quartets to electroacoustic work to popular music.

Conrad was born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1994. He currently attends the / joint degree program and studies piano with Professor Yoheved Kaplinsky at Juilliard. He studies composition with .

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