His ongoing electroacoustic collaboration with improviser and vocalist Charmaine Lee continued with an opening-night performance at the 2019 Resonant Bodies Festival in New York.
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Tao’s acclaimed evening-length collaboration with choreographer Caleb Teicher, More Forever, was presented by Celebrity Series of Boston, and made its west coast premiere at Segerstrom Hall in Orange County, CA. In addition to concert halls, he also toured to college campuses, including the University of Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, Humboldt State University, Oregon State University, and Princeton University. In March 2020, Tao's piece Everything Must Go received its European premiere with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edo de Waart. He also performed The Oneiroi alongside Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Concerto with the Phoenix Symphony. Concerto highlights in the season include performances of his own work for piano and orchestra, The Oneiroi in New York, with the Seattle Symphony, as well as performances with the Baltimore, Charlotte, and Pacific Symphonies. Following his debut at Blossom, The Cleveland Orchestra presented Tao in Severance Hall in a special program featuring music by Mary Lou Williams and Ligeti, and improvisation alongside pianist Aaron Diehl. He debuted in recital at Walt Disney Hall, where the LA Phil presented him in works by Copland and Frederic Rzewski. In the 2019-20 season, Tao was presented in recital by Carnegie Hall, performing works by David Lang, Bach, Julia Wolfe, Jason Eckhardt, Carter, Rachmaninoff, and Schumann. In Europe he was presented by the Swedish Radio Symphony in recital and in Andrew Norman’s Suspend alongside Susanna Mälkki he also returned to the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, performing with Antonio Pappano. 1, alongside summer debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Boston Symphony. He also made his LA Opera debut in the West Coast premiere of David Lang's adaptation of Thomas Bernhard’s the loser, and made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.
Tao’s 2018-19 season began with the New York Philharmonic’s world premiere of their commission Everything Must Go, and the inaugural concert of their curated late-night concert series Nightcap. At the 2019 New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessies”), Tao was the recipient of the award for Outstanding Sound Design / Music Composition, for his work on More Forever, his collaboration with Caleb Teicher. Tao is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and was named a Gilmore Young Artist-an honor awarded every two years highlighting the most promising American pianists of the new generation.
Tune in this Saturday, August 15, at 6pm to 91.5 FM or listen online at ! Artist BiographyĬonrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, and has been dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by The New York Times, who also cited him “one of five classical music faces to watch” in the 2018-19 season. ***Recorded live at Shriver Hall on April 7, 2019.*** 15, “Raindrop”ĬHOPIN: Prelude in B-flat major, Op. 3, “Hunt”ĬHOPIN: Prelude in D-flat major, Op.
31, No.2, “Tempest”ĬONRAD TAO: All I had forgotten or tried to (Baltimore premiere)īEETHOVEN: Sonata No. An electrifying performance, he dazzled the audience with his remarkable musicianship and surprised them with his bare feet! Read more about him in The New York Times’ profile a few months after this concert.īEETHOVEN: Sonata No. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and Gilmore Young Artist Award, he made his Baltimore Recital Debut on Shriver Hall Concert Series’ stage on April 7, 2019. Just 25 years old, Conrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, and has been dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by The New York Times.
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