Modern Romantic Composer

Composer Conrad Askland works full time as an music producer and concert pianist. In his original compositions is a large library of romantic music for orchestra and solo piano. For a more complete listing please visit the Discography page.

Conrad Askland had a strict musical upbringing in classical music as a boy soprano in the Northwest Boys Choir and as a young opera singer in Carmen, Tosca and Boris Gudonov with the Seattle Opera. As a boy soprano he had the lead role in Menotti's opera Amahl And The Night Visitors with the Seattle Opera company.

He also began piano studies at a young age and had private tutoring in composition at the Cornish Institue in Seattle and later at Pacific Lutheran University, St. Olaf University, the University of Miami and UCLA school of film scoring.

"Romantic music for piano will always be my first love", says Askland. "I love Bach for counterpoint and musical workmanship, but nothing touches the piano works of Chopin, Brahms and other famous Romantic composers for putting you in that place no other music does". Then he smiles and says, "That is, until I began composing better music..."