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Darryl Taylor Associate Professor of Music (Vocal Arts) Office: 111 Music & Media Phone: 949-824–2830 E-mail: taylord@uci.edu Website: http://www.darryltaylor.com DMA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Darryl Taylor has sung in concert halls across the United States and Europe, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Merkin Concert Hall,  and Barcelona's Palau de la Mùsica. His  num-

Founder of the African American Art Song Alliance and in demand as a lecturer and clinician, Darryl Taylor has enlightened students and faculty of Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Michigan, among many others.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Darryl Taylor holds degrees from the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan. He is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity, Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society, and the National Association of Negro Musicians. Dr. Taylor serves as Co-Director of Vocal Arts on the music faculty of the University of California, Irvine.

Teaching

Advanced Voice, Vocal Literature
Founder, The African American Art Song Alliance

Selected Performance History

World Premier, Just Above My Head, an opera with music by Nathan Davis on a novel by James Baldwin, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh Jonathan Eaton, stage director, Thomas Douglas, conductor CAPA Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2004 Role of Jimmy

New York Recital Debut, 2001
Weill Recital Hall

Select Concerts, Merkin Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Aaron Davis Hall, Palau de la Mùsica, Liszt Academy of Music

Selected Recordings

Fields of Wonder: Songs and Spirituals of Robert Owens
Videmus/Albany Records Troy 897
Released December 2006

Poetry Preludes: Music of Richard Thompson
Videmus/Albany Records Troy 830
Released March 2006

Explore America, Volume One
Naxos Records, American Classics Series 8.559187
Released May 2003

Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes
Naxos Records, American Classics Series 8.559136
Released September 2002

Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams
Visionary/Albany Records TROY 428
Released January 2001

Sence You Went Away: Contemporary African American Art Songs and Spirituals
Visionary/Albany Records TROY 387
Released January 2000

SunRays: Music of Deon Nielsen Price
Cambria Records CD-1056
Released February 1997