Do you love piano music? Awadagin Pratt’s “Art of the PIano” Festival continues tonight with a recital by Conrad Tao at 7 p.m. in Werner Recital Hall at CCM. He is the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and was named a Gilmore Young Artist—an honor awarded every two years highlighting the most promising American pianists of the new generation.

His program is a combination of new music and classics:

Conrad Tao: Improvisation

John Adams: China Gates

Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903

Jason Eckardt: A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, book 2:

Antennaria plantaginifolia: ‘Pussytoes’

Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15

Fred Hersch: Pastorale

Conrad Tao: Keyed In

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat Op. 110

Tickets are here.

On Sunday at 2 p.m., Awadagin Pratt performs a free program in Memorial Hall entitled “Stillpoint.”

Pratt is joined by composers Tyshawn Sorey, Paola Prestini, Peteris Vasks, Jessie Montgomery, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Alvin Singleton and Judd Greenstein, out-of-the-voice-box, super-group Roomful of Teeth and seven newly composed works. He’ll embrace T.S. Eliot in a concert-length narrative that expresses an elemental truth…”at the still point of the turning world…there the dance is…and there is only the dance.” It is a live preview of Pratt’s upcoming album.

Free but reservations are required, here.

Watch for master classes by MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner Tyshawn Sorey and superstar Jessie Montgomery (You might want to check out the recent NYT profile on Jessie and the recent NYT review of Tyshawn’s engagement with the Houston Chamber Choir). Other composers include Judd Greenstein, Paola Prestini, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Alvin Singleton and Peteris Vasks.

For details on their classes, or to see all masterclasses in the series, click here. Masterclasses are included with an all-festival pass.