Anthony Taylor
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Anthony Taylor, clarinet, has been on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Music, Theatre and Dance and Principal Clarinet of the Winston-Salem Symphony since 2007, and on the faculty of the Hot Springs Music Festival (Arkansas) since 2008. He has formerly held positions with the Spokane Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, and Whitman College. In 2010, Taylor made his ICA debut at the ClarinetFest® in Austin, Texas, with a performance as soloist of John Adams’s clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons, and his research about the piece can be found in recent and upcoming issues of The Clarinet. At the 2011 conference in Los Angeles, Taylor and colleague Kelly Burke premiered UNCG composer Alejandro Rutty's new work Guitars. Upcoming performances include an appearance on New Year's Eve as jazz clarinet soloist with the Winston-Salem Symphony, guest recitals in Texas, including the University of Texas at Austin, and a basset clarinet performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto at the Hot Springs Music Festival in June, 2012. Taylor holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the Florida State University and Washington State University. His former teachers include Steve Cohen, Ron Aufmann, Richard Hawkins, Frank Kowalsky, Jim Schoepflin, and Joseph Brooks.
