Conrad Tao: Voyages Piano Recital
- When
- Sun Oct 27, 2013
- Where
- California Theatre
- Time
- 7pm
- Cost
- $35 - $60
- Tags
- Music, Classical Music
Description
The only classical musician on Forbes' 2011 "30 Under 30" list of people changing the world, 19-year-old Chinese-American pianist Conrad Tao was found playing children's songs on the piano at 18 months of age. Born in Urbana, Illinois, he gave his first piano recital at age 4; four years later, he made his concerto debut performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 414. In June of 2011, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the Department of Education named Conrad a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, while 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.Conrad currently attends the Columbia University/Juilliard School joint degree program and studies piano with Professors Yoheved Kaplinsky and Choong Mo Kang at Juilliard. He studies composition with Professor Christopher Theofanidis of Yale University, and studied violin with Ms. Catherine Cho for five years at Juilliard's Pre-College Division.
More Info
- Link
- http://captivateartists.com/aboutconradtao
- Call
- (408) 286-2600 x23 (Box Office)
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