Album of Conrad Tao Performing Gordon Getty's Piano Pieces Released

A new CD, Gordon Getty's Piano Pieces, performed by Conrad Tao, has just been released on the PentaTone Classics label (PTC 5186 505).

These seven works span the breadth of the composer's career thus far. The five pieces of the Homework Suite date from Gordon Getty's time at San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1962); Andantino and Scherzo Pensiersoso were written last year (2012).

Mr. Getty states, "Orchestral versions of most of these works have been performed and recorded, but these piano originals may never have been heard by the public. I'm not a good enough pianist to have been sure of them, and crossed my fingers when PentaTone proposed to record them. Not to worry when Conrad Tao is the pianist. Everything came out as I had imagined it."

Prodigiously gifted young pianist/composer Conrad Tao was named a Gilmore Young Artist and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, both before the age of 20. In a concert review, All Things Strings declared, "he plays music as if the composer were at his side, with color, joy, and spontaneous poetry."