Featured Performers

• Conrad Tao, piano
• Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Program

• Ruth CRAWFORD SEEGER: Music for Small Orchestra

• MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488

• COPLAND: Appalachian Spring 

Conrad Tao joins the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for a program spanning centuries of brilliance. From the classical elegance of Mozart to the adventurous harmonies of Ruth Crawford Seeger, culminating in the sweeping, quintessentially American Appalachian Spring, this program is both intimate and grand in scope. 

Praised for his insight, sensitivity, and virtuosity, Conrad Tao transforms each work into a living, breathing experience, while the Academy of St Martin in the Fields delivers its signature brilliance and precision. 

The kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music.

New York Magazine (on Tao)

adventurous, agile and often electrifying as he navigated works both contemporary and classical

The New York Times (on Tao)

…the musicians proceeded to play the heck out of a demanding program…extraordinary details of dynamics and tone coloring…The Academy musicians seemed to revel in the notes and they shaped an absorbing, virtuosic performance.

The Baltimore Sun (on Academy of St Martin in the Fields)