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Master Class Led By Pianist Conrad Tao
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Conrad Tao
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Class
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents a Master Class led by Pianist Conrad Tao on Thursday, November 18, 2021.

Experience and observe Conrad Tao’s approach to piano instruction during this coaching session for Virginia Tech music students.

Conrad Tao is a leader of the new generation of classical music. The pianist and composer has amassed a steady stream of awards and critical acclaim for his performances, compositions, and recordings. A former prodigy, Tao has emerged as a mature, thoughtful, and thought-provoking artist with both a singular vision and the talent to realize it.

Dubbed a musician of "probing intellect and open-hearted vision" by the New York Times, Tao is the 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. As a composer, he was the recipient of a 2019 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for "Outstanding Sound Design/Music Composition" for his work on More Forever, his collaboration with dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher.

Tao has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Boston Symphony, and was the focus of a series of concerts and interviews with the Finnish Radio Symphony, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto, no. 4 with Hannu Lintu and Andrew Norman’s Suspend with Sakari Oramo live on television. After his debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, his return date was canceled due to COVID; instead he was invited to give a streamed recital in their Great Performers series, where he played works by Felipe Lara, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Tania León, David Lang, and Beethoven.

Tao was born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1994. He has studied piano with Emilio del Rosario in Chicago and Yoheved Kaplinsky in New York, and composition with Christopher Theofanidis.

Links:

• https://www.conradtao.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/conradtao
• https://www.twitter.com/conradtao
• https://www.youtube.com/user/conradtao
• https://www.instagram.com/conradtao/

Admission is free however registration is required.

To register online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=A3349353-18C5-4784-905D-E2C74F1AB948.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/experiences/conrad-tao-master-class.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or call 540-231-5300.