CONRAD KORSCH is a New York City based acoustic and electric bassist / multi-instrumentalist / vocalist / musical director / bandleader / composer / producer, and educator. After attending the prestigious Settlement Music School throughout his grade school and high school years in Philadelphia, he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Bass Performance from Temple University, where he attended on scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude and with other honors. Widely known for his tenure with Rod Stewart from 2002 - 2018 as bassist and eventually Musical Director / Bandleader, and as a member of The Faces at their R&R Hall Of Fame Induction in 2012 and subsequent reunion concert in England, he has accumulated a long and varied list of other notable recording, performance, production and TV / Film / Theater credits including Elvis Costello, Carly Simon, Andrea Bocelli, Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Contemporary Color (David Byrne, St Vincent, Nelly Furtado, tUnEyArDs and others), Manhattan Transfer, Christopher Cross, Joan Osborne, Jackson Browne, Reba McEntire, Cher & Darlene Love, Paul Shaffer, Macy Gray, Madeleine Peyroux, Rosanne Cash, Carole King, Ani DiFranco, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Marc Cohn, Idina Menzel, Gavin DeGraw, Paula Cole, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Natalie Cole, Liza Minelli, Phillip Phillips, Adam Levine, Clay Aiken, Paulina Rubio, Sammy Hagar, Neko Case, Henry Butler, Richard Marx, The Fifth Dimension, David Broza, Delta Goodrem, Southside Johnny, Teddy Thompson, Deborah Gibson, Blood Sweat and Tears, Dave Koz, Kaki King, Constantine Maroulis, Diane Birch,  Kristina Train, Martin Short,  Bernadette Peters, Kristin Chenoweth, Frank Wilhorn, the Golden Boys (Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell), Gloria Gaynor, Martha Reeves,  Jo Dee Messina, Lainie Kazan, Lesley Gore, Linda Eder, The Midtown Men (original Jersey Boys cast), David Krakauer's "Klezmer Madness", G.E. Smith, Dana Fuchs, The American Vinyl All Star Band, Martin Nievera, and many others.  His Musical Director / Bandleader credits include Rod Stewart, Cyndi Lauper and Guests, Debbie Gibson, Elvis Duran & Jimmy Fallon, and others including his own bands.

Conrad was featured centerstage in the original cast of the Broadway show "Swing!" and in the orchestras / house bands of nearly a dozen other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, the Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Emeril Lagasse Show, the east coast broadcast of the annual Jerry Lewis / MDA Telethon from 2001-2010, and Lincoln Center's "Brazilfest".

His vast studio experience has found him under the direction of such world class producers as Phil Ramone, Richard Perry, David Foster, Steven Epstein (on the Grammy nominated "Swing!" Broadway Cast Album), John Leventhal, Billy Mann, Matthew Wilder, Hal Willner, and David Torn as well as on countless TV and radio jingles for various jingle houses and ad agencies.

He appears as "bassist" in over a half-dozen blockbuster Hollywood films and several TV shows, has been featured in BASS PLAYER, BASS GUITAR, BASS QUARTERLY (Germany), GIG , NEW YORK, and GQ Latin America magazines, the book "The Working Bassist: What You Really Need To Know To Survive In New York City", the Rod Stewart Fan Club, and numerous online and radio interviews.

Through his "Scrumptious Music" production company, he has composed and produced hundreds of underscore tracks for TV and  Internet, as well as recordings for various artists, including his own singer-songwriter albums "On The Threshold" (2016) and "Live Love Leave" (2009), Emily Kinney's (Beth Greene on AMC's "The Walking Dead") "Blue Toothbrush" EP (2011), and co-wrote and played bass on several tracks for Rod Stewart's triumphant return to songwriting with his 2013 certified UK Platinum album "Time". Conrad's score for the contemporary ballet premiere of "Black Beauty" at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre in 2023, which he composed, performed and produced, was  praised by critic Graham Watts as "a revelation...remarkably diverse and descriptive".

Conrad has taught for Hunter College, the University of the Arts, Swarthmore College, Sam Ash Music Institute (Manhattan), and the NARAS "Grammy in the Schools" program, and is a member of Local 802 (NYC) of the American Federation of Musicians.