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Conrad Tao, Piano

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Friday, March 25, 2016
8:00 pm
Piano Recital Series

Conrad Tao began his musical career as a wunderkind. As a pre-teenager he appeared as both a violin and piano soloist with dozens of top-tier orchestras, and later received eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Now twenty-one, he has transitioned gracefully into a mature artist with interpretive depth well beyond his years. The Baltimore Sun declares, 'Tao possesses startling technical élan and an ability to communicate clearly, no matter how thorny a score may become.'At Duke Performances, Tao plays a varied program of old favorites and new discoveries. The first half is anchored by American works: excerpts from North American Ballads by the iconoclastic contemporary composer Frederic Rzewski sit alongside Copland's Piano Sonata. In the second half, Tao takes on Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales, a set of waltzes at the intersection of impressionism and modernism, followed by Schumann's Carnaval, each movement of which represents a different festal reveler.

Contact: Aaron Greenwald