Kent Keyboard Series #1 with Guest Artist Conrad Tao
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Guest artist, Conrad Tao, premieres faculty composer Adam Roberts’ "Book of Flowers"
Guest artist Conrad Tao, hailed as a “creative supernova” (Chicago Tribune), launches the Kent Keybord Series season on Sun., Oct. 6 at 5 p.m. A child prodigy in piano and violin, Tao has emerged as one of the preeminent musicians of this generation as a pianist and composer. He continues to electrify audiences around the globe as a recitalist and soloist with leading orchestras, equally comfortable in repertoire ranging from the traditional to the present. Tao will perform the world premiere of faculty composer, Adam Roberts "Book of Flowers" as well as Debussy Études.
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"Book of Flowers" is a collection of 16 character pieces for piano. Each piece aims to capture a particular energy, from the playful and rhythmic, to the fragile and breakable, to the brutal and ferocious.
"Book of Flowers" owes its existence to its spiritual predecessors—Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Scriabin and Schoenberg—who all distilled their essences into concentrated, short works for the piano.
-Adam Roberts, Assistant Professor - Music Composition