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Pianist Patricia Tao, founding member of the Guild Trio for ten years, leads
an active life as performer, teacher and concert organizer. As pianist of the
Guild Trio, she performed throughout the United States and Europe, with
appearances in major North American cities, including New York, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. With the
Guild Trio, she won the prestigious USIA Artistic Ambassador competition,
resulting in a seven-country European tour.
The following year, her trio was awarded the position of Trio-in-Residence at
the Tanglewood Music Center, where they were lauded by the Boston Globe
as a “beautiful new landmark” on the concert stage.
As soloist, Dr. Tao toured the United States for Columbia Artist’s Community
Concerts series and as an “Artistic Ambassador” for the USIA, with recitals in
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Winner of numerous
awards, she was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein scholarship and the
David McCord Arts Award upon graduation from Harvard University. Summer
festival credits include the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove,
England, Rutgers Summerfest, the Cape May Music Festival, Apple Hill Music
Festival, the Summer Serenades at the Staller Center, Niederstotzingen
Festival in Germany, and the International Arts Festival in France. Recent solo
performances have included recitals on the University of Alberta’s MACH
series, Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 414 with string quartet at the Winspear
Centre, the Yellow River Piano Concerto with the HKJYCC Orchestra in Hong
Kong, and a recital at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
Dr. Tao’s live performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s
“Performance Today,” WNYC’s “Around New York,” WQXR’s “The Listening
Room, the public television series “Premiere Performances” out of St. Louis,
Chicago’s WFMT and “Our Music” on CBC. Dedicated to the performance of
new works, Dr. Tao (with the Guild Trio) commissioned and premiered
numerous works, including William Bolcom’s “Spring Trio,” Sheila Silver’s
“To the Spirit Unconquered,” Harvey Sollberger’s “From Winter’s Frozen
Stillness,” and works by Bradley Lubman, Daniel Weymouth, Peter Winkler,
and Perry Goldstein. Previous recordings include Sheila Silver’s “To the Spirit
Unconquered” on the CRI label, a solo CD on the Arktos label featuring works
of Schubert, Liszt and Corigliano, and most recently, cello and piano sonatas
with cellist Marina Hoover on the Centaur label.
An avid chamber musician, Dr. Tao performs frequently with Ms. Hoover and
Trio Voce, with most recent performances in Edmonton, New York,
Vancouver, Minnesota, and Chicago. Dr. Tao received her undergraduate
education at Harvard University, a masters degree with distinction from
Indiana University and her doctorate from the State University of New York at
Stony Brook, where her principal teachers were Leonard Shure, Gyorgy Sebok
and Gilbert Kalish. She has given master classes at numerous schools,
including the University of Ottawa, Ithaca College, and the Conservatories of
Barcelona, Prague, Bratislava and Wuhan, and has held performance
residencies at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, the medical school
of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the University of
Virginia. She taught at Western Washington University and is now Associate
Professor of Music at the University of Alberta.
an active life as performer, teacher and concert organizer. As pianist of the
Guild Trio, she performed throughout the United States and Europe, with
appearances in major North American cities, including New York, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. With the
Guild Trio, she won the prestigious USIA Artistic Ambassador competition,
resulting in a seven-country European tour.
The following year, her trio was awarded the position of Trio-in-Residence at
the Tanglewood Music Center, where they were lauded by the Boston Globe
as a “beautiful new landmark” on the concert stage.
As soloist, Dr. Tao toured the United States for Columbia Artist’s Community
Concerts series and as an “Artistic Ambassador” for the USIA, with recitals in
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Winner of numerous
awards, she was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein scholarship and the
David McCord Arts Award upon graduation from Harvard University. Summer
festival credits include the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove,
England, Rutgers Summerfest, the Cape May Music Festival, Apple Hill Music
Festival, the Summer Serenades at the Staller Center, Niederstotzingen
Festival in Germany, and the International Arts Festival in France. Recent solo
performances have included recitals on the University of Alberta’s MACH
series, Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 414 with string quartet at the Winspear
Centre, the Yellow River Piano Concerto with the HKJYCC Orchestra in Hong
Kong, and a recital at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
Dr. Tao’s live performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s
“Performance Today,” WNYC’s “Around New York,” WQXR’s “The Listening
Room, the public television series “Premiere Performances” out of St. Louis,
Chicago’s WFMT and “Our Music” on CBC. Dedicated to the performance of
new works, Dr. Tao (with the Guild Trio) commissioned and premiered
numerous works, including William Bolcom’s “Spring Trio,” Sheila Silver’s
“To the Spirit Unconquered,” Harvey Sollberger’s “From Winter’s Frozen
Stillness,” and works by Bradley Lubman, Daniel Weymouth, Peter Winkler,
and Perry Goldstein. Previous recordings include Sheila Silver’s “To the Spirit
Unconquered” on the CRI label, a solo CD on the Arktos label featuring works
of Schubert, Liszt and Corigliano, and most recently, cello and piano sonatas
with cellist Marina Hoover on the Centaur label.
An avid chamber musician, Dr. Tao performs frequently with Ms. Hoover and
Trio Voce, with most recent performances in Edmonton, New York,
Vancouver, Minnesota, and Chicago. Dr. Tao received her undergraduate
education at Harvard University, a masters degree with distinction from
Indiana University and her doctorate from the State University of New York at
Stony Brook, where her principal teachers were Leonard Shure, Gyorgy Sebok
and Gilbert Kalish. She has given master classes at numerous schools,
including the University of Ottawa, Ithaca College, and the Conservatories of
Barcelona, Prague, Bratislava and Wuhan, and has held performance
residencies at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, the medical school
of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the University of
Virginia. She taught at Western Washington University and is now Associate
Professor of Music at the University of Alberta.
