Conrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, and been dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by the New York Times, calling him “one of five classical music faces to watch” in the 2018–19 season. Tao is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and was named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded biennially to promising American pianists. At the 2019 New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessies”), Tao received the award for Outstanding Sound Design/Music Composition, for More Forever, his collaboration with Caleb Teicher.