Laguna Beach Music Festival opening with virtual concert by Conrad Tao
The 19th annual Laguna Beach Music Festival opens Thursday with a one-night salon virtual performance by award-winning composer and pianist Conrad Tao.
Tao, the winner of eight consecutive American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, will give the featured performance at 6 p.m.
Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County are partnering to provide the virtual concert, for which tickets are $20 per household. An admission will allow the viewer to enjoy the concert for up to a week after the event.
An opportunity to join Tao for a question-and-answer session over Zoom after the performance is also available, with those tickets being sold for $50. Tao is serving as the artistic director for the festival, which will take place from May 12 to 16, according to Cindy Prewitt, president of Laguna Beach Live!
The program for Thursday evening will include music from Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Ruth Crawford Seeger and an arrangement from Tao himself, among others. Tickets are available at LagunaBeachMusicFestival.com.
Other artists participating in the festival this year include a brass quartet called the Westerlies, JACK Quartet, dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher and violinist Stefan Jackiw.
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