Brant Taylor Cello
Present
SCMS Debut: 2022 Summer Festival
Brant Taylor’s varied career has included solo appearances and collaborations with leading artists in chamber music, orchestral, pedagogical and popular music settings on five continents. Before his appointment to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Daniel Barenboim, he was cellist of the Everest Quartet, prize winners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, as well as a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He made his solo debut with the San Antonio Symphony at the age of 14. With the Everest Quartet, he performed and taught extensively in North America and the Caribbean and premiered a work by Israeli-American composer Paul Schoenfield. Taylor also has performed and taught at music festivals around the world, including the Festival der Zukunft in Ernen, Switzerland; the Portland Chamber Music Festival; the Shanghai International Music Festival; the Aspen Music Festival; the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia, and Fort Worth, Texas; the Mammoth Lakes Chamber Music Festival; the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colo; the International Cello Institute; the Lakes Area Music Festival in Minnesota; Music Festival Santo Domingo; Village Bach Festival in Michigan; Music at Gretna; and Arizona Musicfest. He can be heard on Pink Martini’s 2007 studio release Hey Eugene! Taylor holds a bachelor of music degree and a performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and a master of music degree from Indiana University. His primary teachers were János Starker and Paul Katz.