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 Rod's former band "The Faces" at their R&R Hall Of Fame Induction in 2012, he has otherwise accumulated a long and varied list of live performance and studio recording credits including Elvis Costello, Carly Simon, Andrea Bocelli, Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Reba McEntire, Contemporary Color (David Byrne, St Vincent, Nelly Furtado, Lucius, tUnEyArDs and others), Michael Bublé, Idina Menzel, Gavin DeGraw, Rosanne Cash, Ariana Grande, Christopher Cross, Joan Osborne, Cher & Darlene Love, Paul Shaffer, Macy Gray, Madeleine Peyroux, Manhattan Transfer, Little Big Town, Carole King, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Marc Cohn, Paula Cole, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Natalie Cole, Liza Minelli, Phillip Phillips, Adam Levine, Gregg Alexander, Clay Aiken, Little Big Town, Sammy Hagar, Neko Case, Richard Marx, The Fifth Dimension, Southside Johnny, Teddy Thompson, Deborah Gibson, Blood Sweat and Tears, 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, Dave Koz, Andy Snitzer, Kaki King, Constantine Maroulis, Henry Butler, Delta Goodrem, Diane Birch, Kristina Train, The Midtown Men (original Jersey Boys cast), David Krakauer's "Klezmer Madness", G.E. Smith, David Broza, 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 (Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco, Paulina Rubio, Sandra Bernhard, Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters, Bridget Everett and others), Elvis Duran & Jimmy Fallon, Debbie Gibson, and others including his own bands. He has worked with such world class producers as Phil Ramone, Richard Perry, David Foster, Steven Epstein, John Leventhal, Billy Mann, Matthew Wilder, Hal Willner, and David Torn.

Conrad has performed on nearly every TV show that features live music, was featured onstage and on the Grammy nominated Original Broadway Cast albums of the Broadway shows "Swing!" and "Maybe Happy Ending", and has performed in the orchestras of over a dozen other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, and the house bands for the Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Emeril Lagasse Show, the east coast broadcast of the annual Jerry Lewis / MDA Telethon from 2001-2010, Lincoln Center's "Brazilfest", and many other live events.

He appears onscreen as " the bassist" in over a dozen blockbuster Hollywood films and 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", and numerous online and radio interviews.

Conrad's bass playing can be heard on countless TV and Radio jingles, and many film and TV scores. Through his "Scrumptious Music" production company he has composed and produced hundreds of underscore tracks for TV and Internet, as well as albums 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 several tracks on Rod Stewart's 2013 album, "Time" (UK Certified Platinum). Conrad's score for the contemporary ballet premiere of "Black Beauty" at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre in 2023, for which he composed, performed and produced all of the music, was praised by critic Graham Watts (Gramilano) as "a revelation...remarkably diverse and descriptive with robust, rhythmic flair and tuneful lyrical passages...truly a one-man orchestra".

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.