Conrad Tao, at Le Poisson Rouge Meet Conrad Tao. A composer, concert pianist and award-winning violinist, he also runs a festival in Brooklyn, Unplay, which starts on June 11. He will turn 19 that day. His Wikipedia page features a photo of him with Hillary Rodham Clinton from when he was named a Davidson Fellow laureate. In 2011 he joined Lady Gaga, Adele and Taylor Swift on the Forbes list of the 30 most influential people under 30. On Tuesday evening at Le Poisson Rouge Mr. Tao performed works for solo piano from his latest CD, "Voyages," which will also be released on his birthday. While there was much to admire in his confident and sensitive playing, it was above all the program, with pieces by Rachmaninoff and Ravel, Meredith Monk and Mr. Tao himself, that conveyed the scope of his probing intellect and openhearted vision. The theme of his album and Tuesday's concert was motion, both in the literal sense of traversing distance and in the swooping virtual movement of dreams, which inspired Ravel's haunting "Gaspard de la Nuit" and Mr. Tao's own "vestiges." The program opened with Ms. Monk's brief "Railroad (Travel Song)," which establishes a chugging ostinato in the left hand, punctuated by chords in the right. Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 32, No. 5), the first of five preludes that Mr. Tao rearranged into an emotionally charged narrative arc, employed a similar device, with the left hand creating a musical conveyor belt that transported an array of beautiful figures. In fortissimo passages Mr. Tao produces a signature sound that is powerful and sharp, and in the first of his "vestiges," "upon waking alongside green glass bottles," it aptly rendered the quality of a material that is both hard and transparent. There were chiseled rhythms in "upon ripping perforated pages," too, which gave way to a brooding hush in "upon being." In "upon viewing two porcelain figures," the music took on a dialectic current, with one hand seemingly fighting to break out of the repetitive strictures created in the other. Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" brought forth a more finely graded palette in Mr. Tao's playing, although, in these acoustics at least, it lacked the Impressionistic softness idiomatic to French music. But Mr. Tao's "iridescence" for piano and iPad (with piano sounds transformed by an app) created an alluring sound world in which subtle crackling, scratching and static noises wrapped themselves around a surreal and dreamy waltz. Conrad Tao's Unplay Festival runs from June 11 through 13 in the Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn; conradtao.com.