Voyages

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"Conrad is the kind of musician who builds the future of music" - New York Magazine. Conrad Tao's top-notch album explores themes of change and the unpredictable and shifting nature of movement in our lives. Conrad explains: "whether it is the surreal dream images of Ravel in 'Gaspard de la Nuit' or Conrad's 'Vestiges', the agitated movement of Meredith Monk in 'Railroad (Travel Song)', or the contrasting moods of Rachmaninoff's preludes, the stakes of the transformations in our lives are not so much about going from point A to point B, but rather what happens between the two points." At the age of eighteen, Conrad Tao has already accomplished more than most classical musicians do in a lifetime. A world-class pianist, a concert violinist, and an acclaimed composer (he has received the ASCAP Young Composer award for eight consecutive years), Tao is also a Gilmore Young Artist awardee, an American presidential scholar, and was the only classical musician in Forbes magazine in 2011.