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The American lyric tenor, James Taylor, is one of the most sought after oratorio singers of his generation, appearing worldwide with such conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Harry Christophers, Osmo Vänskä, Phillipe Herreweghe and Franz Welser-Möst. He tours extensively with Helmuth Rilling. Important guest appearances have included concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, the Toronto Symphony, Tafelmusik, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. He has recorded Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and the songs of John Duke. Mr. Taylor is one of the founders of Liedertafel, a vocal ensemble which has appeared in major European music festivals and recorded for the Orfeo label. A recording of Scottish and Welsh songs by Franz Josef Haydn, together with Donald Sulzen and the Munich Piano Trio, has recently been released. Mr. Taylor is on the faculties of the Musikhochschule Augsburg, Germany, and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.