13-year-old pianist, composer, and violinist Conrad Tao was born in Urbana, Illinois.  He showed an interest in music very early, playing children’s songs on the piano at about 18 months of age.  Conrad started violin lessons at age 3, piano lessons at 3 1/2, gave his first public piano recital at age 4, and his first major recital at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference at age 7.  At age 8, he made his concerto debut with the Utah Chamber Music Festival Orchestra performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K414.  Two years later, Conrad was featured on the national radio program From the Top as both pianist and composer, and he was featured a second time as violinist, pianist and composer in 2007, when the program moved to national television as From the Top - Live from Carnegie Hall.  Conrad’s recital performance has been featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today.

 

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