Battle Creek Symphony
Saturday, may 5, 7:30 pm
W.K. Kellogg Auditorium
Conrad Tao, piano

gilmore and brahms 4

From an inner storm of love and longing, Brahms forged a Romantic masterpiece, his fourth and final symphony. Then a glimpse of future greatness as Gilmore Young Artist Conrad Tao performs Rachmaninoff's passionate 2nd piano concerto.

A collaboration with the 2012 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Brahms Symphony No. 4

 

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Conrad Tao, piano

Born in Urbana, Illinois, seventeen year old Conrad Tao began violin lessons at age three and formal piano lessons shortly thereafter. At the age of eight, he made his concerto debut with the Utah Chamber Music Festival Orchestra performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K. 414.
In 2006, Tao won the Juilliard Pre-College’s Gina Bachauer Piano Competition and the Prokofiev Concerto Competition, and in 2008, he was named a Davidson Fellow Laureate by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, commending his efforts to make classical music relevant to the current generation.

Tao stepped in for an ailing Yuja Wang (2006 Gilmore Young Artist) recently for a well-received performance with the Pacific Symphony in Los Angeles, and last month he was one of 20 high school seniors in the United States named as “Presidential Scholars in the Arts”—the only student selected from the field of Classical Music.  As a composer, Tao is an eight-time consecutive winner of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award since 2004.

Tao now lives in New York City where he recently graduated from high school and the Preparatory Division of the Juilliard School where he studies piano under Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky and composition with Mr. Christopher Theofanidis of Yale University. Tao will enter the joint Columbia University/Juilliard combined degree program in New York this September.