Conference artists - Music Teachers National Association

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2002

Since his first solo recital at 10, he has performed in many cities, including New York (at both Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls), Boston, Washington, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles, as well as in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. He has appeared with the St. Louis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the National Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Seoul Philharmonic and numerous other orchestras. During a busy 1998-1999 season, Taylor made debuts with the Detroit Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra's Piano Extravaganza.

Taylor began his piano studies in his native Boulder, Colorado, under Julie Bees, and has since studied with Francisco Aybar, Russell Sherman and Maria Curcio Diamond. While pursuing his musical career, he also attended Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in mathematics in 1992. Taylor maintains many other interests, including composition--a field in which he has won several awards--music, theory and linguistics. He is a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.