

Tao continues to perform concertos with orchestras around the world, including a return to the Swedish Radio Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano. In January 2019, Tao and dancer-choreographer Caleb Teicher continue to develop More Forever, their evening-length multidisciplinary work which explores American vernacular dance traditions, as part of Guggenheim’s Works & Process series. Tao makes his LA Opera debut in the West Coast premiere of David Lang’s new work, the loser, where he plays the onstage role of the apparition and memory of Glenn Gould.
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Tao also inaugurates Nightcap, a new series at the New York Philharmonic, joined by dancer-choreographer Caleb Teicher and Charmaine Lee for a late-night concert of multidisciplinary performances.

Tao begins his 2018/19 season with the world premiere of his composition, Everything Must Go, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic. Later that year, Tao was named a Gilmore Young Artist and in May of 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. In June of 2011, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the Department of Education named Tao a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts awarded him a YoungArts gold medal in music. CONRAD TAO has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer and has been dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by The New York Times, a “thoughtful and mature composer” by NPR, and “ferociously talented” by TimeOut New York.
