art song coach
Mr. Taylor is equally at home on stage accompanying some of the world's preeminent vocalists and in the pit conducting a varied repertoire of fifty operas and musicals. Professor Taylor enjoys a wide-ranging international career, having recently toured Japan with Kathleen Battle, and making his debut at the New York City Opera leading La Traviata.
He has appeared in recital with Sylvia McNair, Ben Heppner, and Christine Schaefer, among many others. Formerly music director for the New York City Opera National Company and the Mobile (Alabama) Opera, he has appeared with many American opera companies, including those of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Wolf Trap, and Central City, as well as serving on the conducting staffs of the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Professor Taylor served as assistant to Academy Award winner Tan Dun for the premiere of Marco Polo at the Munich Biennale and then prepared the work with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras.
Now in his third year at Yale, as well as his ninth year on the faculty of the Opera Program at Mannes College for Music (The New School) in New York City, Professor Taylor makes his home in Manhattan, where he maintains an active studio as coach and teacher. B.M.,George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; M.M., Indiana University.