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Jason

About Me

I was born in 1975 in Wilmington, DE. I received a Masters of Music Degree in Composition at the Peabody Conservatory. My main teachers included Nicholas Maw and Chris Theofanidis. Additional studies with Bruno Amato, and Thomas Benjamin at Peabody, Dan Coleman in NYC, and George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music School. I was awarded 2nd prize in the Virginia Carty deLillo Composition Competition. My 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. MyOctober Dream for guitar quartet is published by homadream in Tokyo. Recently, Cord Aria a German based guitar and flute duo have put out a recording which includes my piece Winter Light. This is a piece I wrote in the hospital while my son was born. It was originally written for Yoshio Nomura and Chie Morimoto.

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Member Since: 13/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.jasonrtaylor.com/
Band Members: Blog
thoughts

Influences: Dan Coleman, Yoshio Nomura, Eve Weiss, Chris Theofanidis, George Tsontakis, Larry Lipkis, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Oran, Eliot Smith...
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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Getting Here Duo Concert This Saturday December 12th 2009

Guitar duo concert!!!! Jason R Taylor and Yoshio Nomura will be performing Jasons work to date for two guitars, including the World Premiere of his Past Lives, an arrangement of Kyoto Leaves from O...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:15:00 GMT

Stardust(er) recording posted

I posted my piece for string quartet and guitar. This is the first movement of a multimovement work which will be spread out over a few different concerts.This piece was commissioned by Chie Morimoto ...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:42:00 GMT

Japanese TV show

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik75Kc2ERA8
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:41:00 GMT

Check out this event: Osaka Guitar Quartet

Hosted By: Osaka Guitar QuartetWhen: Saturday Sep 15, 2007 at 4:00 PMWhere: Muramatsu Hallhttp://www.muramatsuflute.com/hall.htmlOSAKA, OS 532-0004JapanDescription:Osaka Guitar Quartet Click Here To V...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:13:00 GMT

Check out this event: Uno Guitar Duo

Hosted By: Music at St.BarnabusWhen: Tuesday Oct 09, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: Music at St.BarnabusManette Street Soho, LO WIV5LBUnited KingdomDescription:Music at St.Barnabus Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:12:00 GMT