Pianist Conrad Tao Comes to Boston Tonight

Pianist/composer phenom Conrad Tao will bring his extraordinary talents to Boston this fall to perform a cutting-edge "groupmuse" - a new kind of music event which falls somewhere between an intimate salon performance and a house party. Tonight, November 14 concert will be hosted by 99.5 WCRB, WGBH Boston's listener-supported classical radio station, at the public broadcaster's legendary Fraser Studio. The concert is part of a larger partnership between the station and the startup social network. Warner Classics is a proud supporter of both organizations, and is excited to bring its star pianist into the ranks of groupmusers.

Groupmuse event page: https://www.groupmuse.com/events/1186

Conrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, and has been dubbed a musician of "probing intellect and open-hearted vision" by the New York Times, a "thoughtful and mature composer" by NPR, and "ferociously talented" by TimeOut New York. The 20-year-old Tao released his debut Warner Classics album Voyages last year, also performing at NYC club (le) Poisson Rouge and producing and hosting a three-night music festival, dubbed UNPLAY, which explored classical music and modern culture. Last fall, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra premiered Conrad's new orchestral composition, "The World Is Very Different Now", commissioned in observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

99.5 WCRB is the listener-supported classical radio station of WGBH Boston, America's preeminent public broadcaster and the largest producer of PBS content for TV and the Web. Television channels include WGBH 2, WGBX 44, and the digital channels World and Create. WGBH Radio serves listeners across New England with 89.7 WGBH, Boston's Local NPR; 99.5 WCRB; and WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station. Find more information at wgbh.org.

Groupmuse.com is a social network that directly connects classical musicians in the area to local culture seekers, so that the community can organically generate its own classical music house parties, called "groupmuses." A groupmuse is an experience that is as musical as it is social and as stimulating as it is enjoyable. Since the first groupmuse in January of 2013, we've put on over 300, introducing thousands of people to new friends and to the great masterpieces of music, making outer worlds smaller, and inner worlds larger.