Conrad Tao - Voyages flac-Album

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Conrad Yiwen Tao born June 11, 1994 is an American composer and pianist and former violinist. Tao's piano and violin performances since childhood brought him early recognition at music festivals and competitions, and he is receiving critical praise for his recitals and concerts with symphony orchestras. At age 13, he was featured on the PBS TV series From the Top Live from Carnegie Hall as violinist, pianist and composer. He won eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Among his. The latest prodigy to make headlines is Conrad Tao, 18 years old when this album was released by EMI in 2013. The son of Chinese-American academics, Tao is said to have started playing the piano - by ear - at 18 months. The booklet blithely notes that he won eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Awards between 2004 when he was ten and 2011. Album 2013 16 Songs. Conrad Tao. Classical 2013. Railroad Travel Song. Eighteen-year-old Chinese-American wunderkind Conrad Tao is a composer-pianist in the tradition of Liszt and Rachmaninov, blessed with prodigal performing skill and compositional imagination beyond his tender years. Voyages is themed around dreams, with impressive renderings of Ravel's creepy, crepuscular Gaspard de la Nuit and five Rachmaninov preludes alongside Tao's own vestiges , four dream-inspired miniatures. Conrad Tao hates classical music. Not the music itself, of course, but the institution: grossly normative, capitalistic, and steeped in established, unchallenged practices, classical has long been code for privileged traditions and the aesthetic sensibilities to which they give rise. Because Conrad Tao, probably much to his own chagrin, also loves classical music. On his major label debut Voyages and in his concerts, he plays it thoughtfully and beautifully and with dedication. This makes him something of an Andy Warhol for the classical set, working within the very same structures he seeks to subvert. The debut album by Conrad Tao is available at http. Conrad's new album, PICTURES featuring works by Mussorgsky, Lang, Carter, Takemitsu, and Tao is out. Conrad Tao is a leader of the new generation of classical music. The pianist and composer has amasse. 25,315 people like this. 25,433 people follow this. Listen free to Conrad Tao Voyages Railroad Travel Song, 13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 5 in G Major and more. 14 tracks 64:13. A new version of is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Play album. Get album. Voyages, pianistcomposer Conrad Tao s full-length debut album on EMI Classics following his 2012 Juilliard Sessions EP explores themes of change, and the shifting, unpredictable nature of movement in our lives. Tao's version of it is more like a night ride in a sleeping car-at once animated and restful but not exactly vibrant