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June 07, 2012

Pianist Conrad Tao Receives 2012 Avery Fisher Career Grant


Conrad Tao - photo by Ruiming Wang

Conrad Tao, an ASCAP member and accomplished pianist, was awarded one of the 2012 Avery Fisher Career Grants. The Career Grants are part of the Avery Fisher Artist Program, funded through a major gift to Lincoln Center by the late Fisher. Since 1976, 123 Career Grants for young musicians have been awarded with $25,000 for professional assistance and recognition.

Tao is currently a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded every two years to single out the most promising of the new generation of U.S. pianists. In December 2011, Tao was the only classical musician to make Forbes' “30 Under 30” list highlighting the “youngest stars in the music business.” Tao is an eight-time consecutive winner of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.