Daniel Taylor
Countertenor, founder and artistic director of TEM
Daniel Taylor
Countertenor, founder and artistic director of TEM
Biography
An exclusive recording artist for Sony Classical Masterworks, Daniel Taylor is one of the most
sought-after countertenors in the world.
Daniel appears on more than 80 recordings which include Bach Cantatas/Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner (for Deutsche Grammophone
Archiv and SDG); Renaissance duets with Bowman /Actor Ralph Fiennes/TEM (BIS); Handel’s Rinaldo with Bartoli /AAM/Hogwood (Decca);
Cantatas "Before Bach" with Collegium Vocale /Herrewege (Harmonia Mundi); Sakamoto’s pop-opera
"Life" with the Dalai Lama and Salman Rushdie (Sony); Bach Cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan (BIS);
a Bach recital with the Theatre of Early Music (Sony); Vivaldi Gloria with the Bethlehem Bach Choir/Fumfgeld (Analekta);
Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater (BIS); four recordings of Handel’s Messiah, these being with the Kammerchor Stuttgart (Carus),
with the American Bach Soloists (Koch) and most recently a CD/DVD with Tafelmusik (Bravo Television)
and a live recording with the New York Philharmonic. Daniel has recorded the CD/DVD of the
Bach B minor Mass with the Ensemble Orchestrale Paris/Nelson (EMI Virgin)
and also a CD with the Kammerchor Stuttgart/Bernius (Carus). Upcoming recordings include Handel’s Jephtha/McCreesh
with the Gabrieli Consort for Deutsche Gramophone Archiv as well as a new recital disc for Sony Classical Masterworks.
Daniel’s debut at Glyndebourne in Handel’s Theodora
(recorded for Erato) followed on his operatic debut in Jonathan Miller’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda (EMI).
He took the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo at the Edinburgh Festival. His North American operatic debut was in Handel’s
Cesare at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Daniel receives invitations from an ever-widening circle of the world’s leading
early and contemporary music ensembles, appearing in opera (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, San Francisco, Rome, Welsh
National Opera, Canadian Opera, Opera North, Montreal Opera and Munich); oratorio (Gabrieli Consort, Monteverdi Choir/English
Baroque Soloists, Bach Collegium Japan, Les Arts Florissants, Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
King’s Consort); symphonic works (Cleveland, St. Louis, Lisbon, Philadelphia, Tonhalle Zurich, Toronto, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Montreal); recital
(Vienna Konzerthaus, Frick Collection, New York, Forbidden Concert Hall, Beijing, Lufthansa Baroque Festival and Wigmore Hall, London)
and film (Podeswa’s Five Senses for Fineline - winner at Cannes and also of a Genie).
Daniel Taylor is recognized as "Canada’s star countertenor" and "Canada’s most prolific recording artist".
Highlights of past engagements include Handel’s Messiah with San Francisco Symphony/Christophers; Handel’s Rinaldo
with the Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood (with Bartoli for Decca); Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the Cleveland Orchestra/McGegan;
Messiah with the St. Louis Symphony/Christophers; Orff's Carmina Burana with the Toronto Symphony/Oundjan; Bach Christmas Oratorio
with the National Arts Centre/Pinnock; Handel’s Rinaldo at the Munich Opera/Bickett; Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms
with the Philadelphia Orchestra/Dutoit; Handel’s Saul with Bachakademie Stuttgart/ Rilling (for Hänssler Classics);
Buxtehude Cantatas with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman (for Channel Classics); Orff’s Carmina Burana
with the Taiwan National Symphony/Grossman (for KOCH) and Schnittke’s Faust Cantata with the Rotterdam Philharmonic/Gergiev.
Daniel also sang at a North American Indian Pow-Wow in Alberta and on
Parliament Hill for Queen Elizabeth and the Prime Minister of Canada. He appeared on German Television for the Prime Minister of
Germany, on Spanish Television for the Queen of Spain and in a recital for the King and Queen of Sweden.
With the Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh , Daniel toured Europe in Purcell’s Odes, appeared in recital on Polish Television
and toured Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; he also appeared in the Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Tonhalle Zurich Orchestra/McCreesh.
With the Madrid National Orchestra/Goodwin, he sang in the Bach St. Matthew Passion on Spanish Television.
With the Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner, Daniel appeared in Handel’s Israel in Egypt on British Television at the BBC Proms;
returning to the BBC Proms in recital with the Berlin Akamus.
In the 2009 - 2010 Season, Daniel makes his debuts with the Israel Philharmonic, the Madrid National Orchestra,
and the New York Philharmonic.
He returns to the St. Louis Orchestra, to Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, to the Nashville, San Diego and San Francisco
Symphonies, to the Calgary Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony and the Quebec Symphony. He tours Europe with the
Academy of Ancient Music, appears in recital at the Wigmore Hall and in concerts with the Gabrieli Consort and
with the Bach Academy of Stuttgart. Daniel also makes his solo recital debuts in Barcelona at the Palau de la
Musica, and in March 2010 at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Daniel is Professor of Voice at the Conservatoire de musique in Montreal, Professor of Voice at the University of Ottawa,
an Adjunct Professor at McGill University, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria and Artist-in-Residence at
Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. Daniel is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Choir and Orchestra of the Theatre of
Early Music. The Theatre of Early Music performs more than 30 concerts every year in concert halls all over the world.
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Daniel Taylor
Promotional Photographs
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Photo: Marco Borggreve.
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Daniel Taylor
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Daniel Taylor conducting the TEM choir
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