Jason Taylor, composer

 

Jason Taylor born in 1975 in Wilmington, DE. He received a Masters of Music Degree in Composition at the Peabody Conservatory. His main teachers included Nicholas Maw, Chris Theofanidis, and Larry Lipkis. Additional studies with Bruno Amato, and Thomas Benjamin at Peabody, Dan Coleman in NYC, and George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music School. He was awarded 2nd prize in the Virginia Carty deLillo Composition Competition. His music has been performed in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC’s Christ and St.Stephen’s Church; Esglesia de Santa Cristina d’Aro, in Girona, Spain; Pennsylvania; The Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Japan, Aspen, Colorado,and Germany.

 

His October Dream for guitar quartet is published by homadream in Tokyo, a recording thereof was included in the May/June 2008 edition of the GuitarDream magazine. Recently, Cord Aria a German based guitar and flute duo have put out a recording which includes his piece Winter Light. They have performed the piece all over Germany and in the summer of 2007 they did a tour of Brazil with it as part of their repertoire. His work for two guitars Getting Here will be published in an upcoming edition of the GuitarDream publication.

 

Winter Light (flute & guitar)

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Cold Blue Noodle (solo flute)

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