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The Carolina Summer Music Festival  Meet the Musicians . . .  Marilyn Taylor, sopranoSoprano Marilyn Taylor received operatic training from Virginia Zeani, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and Giorgio Tozzi at Indiana University, where she completed the Doctor of Music Degree in 2005. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, she has sung leading operatic roles with Kentucky Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Dayton Opera, Nashville Opera, Piedmont Opera, and Lyric Opera Kansas City. Orchestral and concert engagements include the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Alba Music Festival (Italy) the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Bonn Orchestra with conductor Dennis Russell Davies, the Flannéries Musicales d’été de Reims, the Winston-Salem Symphony, and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, among others. She has enjoyed collaborations with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Robert Ward, William Bolcom and John Harbison, as well as with NCSA composers Kenneth Frazelle and Lawrence Dillon. Recordings include the leading role in a recently released DVD of Roman Fever by Robert Ward, a solo CD entitled Return: Art Songs of Carolina on the Albany label, as well as recordings with G. Schirmer and Koch. Upcoming engagements include the role of Signora Naccarelli in Piedmont Opera’s October ‘08 production of The Light in the Piazza. Ms. Taylor was a winner of a George London Grant, an award from the Metropolitan National Council, and a recipient of a generous career grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. In 1992 she joined the Artist Faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she serves as Chair of the Voice Department. Ms. Taylor is pleased to see many of her students performing with opera companies and orchestras throughout the world. She is currently the teacher of famed American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and has had two National winners of the Metropolitan Council Auditions: soprano Jennifer Welch-Babidge and tenor René Barbera. Back to Artists Roster |
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