Conrad Tao emerged as a very impressive young performer and composer in the first decade of the 20th century, becoming the only classical musician on Forbes magazine's 2011 "30 Under 30" list of people who just might change the world. Aside from being a noted performer and composer, Tao is also the founder of New York's UNPLAY Festival.
Tao was born in Urbana, Illinois, on June 11, 1994. He began playing piano at a very young age, with a public performance of Mozart's Concerto No. 12 at the age of eight, but he also took up the violin, which he studied in Juilliard's pre-coll...