Daniel Taylor

 

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"Canada's star countertenor...there is a sense of conviction and honesty that sets him apart from the others". - Globe and Mail

Sony Masterworks is thrilled to announce the release of The Voice of Bach, the RCA Red Seal debut from Canadian counter tenor, Daniel Taylor. This welcome recording showcases some of the most famous and best-loved examples of J.S. Bach's superlative writing for the human voice and features Taylor in striking versions of Bach's oratorio arias and cantatas including 'Es ist vollbracht' from St. John's Passion, 'Erbarme Dich' from the St. Matthew's Passion and 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' from Cantata BWV 4.

Soprano Agnes Zigovics joins Taylor in duets 'Wir eilen mit Schwachen' from 'Jesu, der du meine Seele' BWV 78 and 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn' from Cantata BWV 23.  Accompanying Daniel Taylor in the choruses and symphonic interludes on this CD is the Theatre of Early Music, a Canadian-based period-instrument ensemble and professional choir of which Taylor is founder and artistic director.

Daniel Taylor works with an ever-widening circle of the world's leading early and contemporary music experts including Ton Koopman, Paul McCreesh, Sir Jonathan Miller, Trevor Pinnock and Helmut Rilling.  On 15th January 2009 he will be appearing at Birmingham Town Hall as Hamor in Nicholas McGegan's production of Handel's Jephta.

Gramophone recently noted of Daniel Taylor's musicianship: "eloquently thought through and beautifully sung with the perfect sense of dramatic character:.. sung with peerless vocal beauty and remarkably sensitive ornaments".

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BIOGRAPHYCONTACTPUBLICITY

Daniel Taylor, countertenor

 

An exclusive recording artist for SONY CLASSICAL/MASTERWORKS, Daniel Taylor is one of the most sought-after countertenors in the world.

Daniel Taylor's debut at Glyndebourne in Handel's Theodora (recorded for ERATO) followed his operatic debut in Jonathan Miller's UK production of Handel's Rodelinda (EMI). Her has made more than 80 recordings, which include Bach Cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner for DG ARCHIV, Renaissance Duets with James Bowman and actor Ralph Fiennes (BIS),the Gramophone Award winning Handel's Rinaldo with Cecilia Bartoli, The Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher Hogwood (DECCA), Cantatas "Before Bach" with Collegium Vocale and Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi), Buxtehude with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Ton Koopman (Channel), Sakamoto's pop-opera Life with the Dalai Lama and Salmon Rushdie (Sony Japan), Bach Cantatas with the Bethlehem Bach Choir and Greg Fumfgeld (DORIAN) and Bach Cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan (BIS). His first recording for Sony Classical/Masterworks The Voice of Bach has been highly-praised by journalists and audiences all over the world. Forthcoming recordings include Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Magdalen Consort (Hyperion), Handel's Messiah with the Kammerchor Stuttgart and Frieder Bernius (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) and Handel's Jephtha with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort (DG ARCHIV). His next recital disc for Sony Classical/Masterworks is due out in 2010.

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, Candian Opera, Opera North and the Bayerische Staatsoper), oratorio (Gabrieli Consort, Philharmonia Baroque, Bach Collegium Japan, King's Consort, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Berlin Academie für Alte Musik, Collegium vacale de Ghent, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, King's Consort, Academy of Ancient Music), symphonic works (Cleveland, Lisbon, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Gothenburg, Toronto, Rotterdam, Montreal) and recital (Vienna Konzerthaus, New York's Frick Collection, Beijing's Forbidden Concert Hall, Lufthansa Baroque Festival and London's Wigmore Hall). His film work includes the soundtrack to Jeremy Podeswa's Five Senses, which won a Genie (Canada's Oscar) and at Cannes. He has sung in special performances for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the Prime Minister of England.

Daniel's 2009 season includes debuts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Madrid Orchestra, NDR Hamburg, NDR Hannover and with the New York Philharmonic. 2009 also finds Daniel's return to the San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Orchestra, National Arts Centre, Calgary Philharmonic and in recital at London's Wigmore Hall.

Daniel is now Professor of Voice at the University of Ottawa, on the Guest Faculty at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts, Visiting Artist at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor at McGill University. Daniel is Artistic Director of the Music Festival at St. Sauveur and is Founder and Artistic Director of the Theatre of Early Music, a Choir and period-instrument ensemble based in Canada, comprised of musicians from all over the world. This season, with the Theatre of Early Music, Daniel will tour South American including performances in Brazil, Peru and Argentina. The TEM Choir will debut in the UK, and will tour Canada and The United States in more than 25 concerts this season.

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MANAGEMENT

North America:

Carrie Sykes
Vice-President
Schwalbe and Partners, New York
www.schwalbeandpartners.com

Agents for The Theatre of Early Music
Darcy Gregoire
The Agency Group
2 Berkeley Street, Suite 202
Toronto, ON M5A 4J5
Canada

T: 1 416 368 5599 x 3247
F: 1 416 368 4655
www.theagencygroup.com

Europe
For Concerts (non-exclusive)

Daniela Spering
Konzertdirecktion Schmid, Hannover/London
www.kdschmid.de

For Personal Recitals and Opera (Germany, Belgium and Switzerland/non-exclusive)

Daniela Spering, Orfeo Artist Management
E: ds@orfeo-artist-management.de

South America

E: fasmanagement@aol.com

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PUBLICITY

Europe

Penelope Axtens
Sony Classical International Berlin
T: 49-30-13888-7635
penelope.axtens@sonymusic.com

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The Voice of Bach
Choir & Orchestra of the Theatre of Early Music
Daniel Taylor, countertenor & conductor

Track Listing

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

1. Sinfonia in E minor (mi mineur - e-Moll) 1:20
Cantata BWV 4 "Christ lag in Todesbanden"

2. Aria: Ebarme dich, mein Gott 6:13
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Matthäupspassion - Passion selon saint Mattieu)

3. Aria (Duet): Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten 4:59
Cantata BWV 78 "Jesu, der du meine Seele"

4. Motet: O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht, BWV 118b 8:28

5. Sinfonia in F minor (fa mineur - f-Moll) 2:06
Cantata VWV 12 "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"

6. Aria: Es ist vollbrach! 5:05
St John Passion, BWV 245 (Johannespassion - Passion selon saint Jean)

7. Aria (Duet): Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn 7:06
Cantata BWV 23 "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn"

8. Chorale: Vor deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit, BWV 668 4:08

9. Aria: Schließe, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder 5:03
Christmas Oratorio, VWV 248 (Part 3) (Weihnachtsoratorium [3 Teil] - Oratorio de Noël [3e Partie])

10. Sinfonia in C minor (ut mineur - c-Moll) 2:28
Cantata BWV 21 "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"

11. Aria: Bereite dich, Zion 5:08
Christmas Oratorio, VWV 248 (Part 1) (Weihnachtsoratorium [1. Teil] - Oratorio de Noël [1re Partie])

Agnes Zsigovics, soprano (tracks 3 & 7)
Theatre of Early Music
Choir of the Theatre of Early Music

Recorded at MultiMedia Room, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal Canada
August 6 -11, 2007

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The Voice of Bach showcases some of the most famous and best-loved examples of J.S. Bach's superlative writing for the human voice and features Daniel Taylor in striking versions of Bach's oratorio arias and cantatas including ‘Es ist vollbracht' from St. John's Passion, "Erbarme Dich" from the St. Matthew's Passion and "Christ lag in Todesbanden"' from Cantata BWV 4.

Soprano Agnes Zigovics joins Taylor in duets ‘Wir eilen mit Schwachen' from ‘Jesu, der du meine Seele' BWV 78 and "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn" from Cantata BWV 23.  Accompanying Daniel Taylor in the choruses and symphonic interludes on this CD is the Theatre of Early Music, a Canadian-based period-instrument ensemble and professional choir of which Taylor is founder and artistic director.

Daniel Taylor works with an ever-widening circle of the world's leading early and contemporary music experts including Ton Koopman, Paul McCreesh, Sir Jonathan Miller, Trevor Pinnock and Helmut Rilling.  On 15th January 2009 he will be appearing at Birmingham Town Hall as Hamor in Nicholas McGegan's production of Handel's "Jephta". 

Gramophone recently noted of Daniel Taylor's musicianship: " eloquently thought through and beautifully sung with the perfect sense of dramatic character...sung with peerless vocal beauty and remarkably sensitive ornaments".

 

Tour Schedule 2010

NOVDEC

 

Date:

Nov 7th, 2010

City: Ottawa, CA
Venue:

Daniel Taylor gives Masterclass for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (National Capital Chapter) Please note that this masterclass is open to the public - more details soon.

   
Date: Nov. 12th, 2010, 7.30 p.m.
Venue:

Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel

400 Saint-Paul Street, East Montreal

Montreal, CA

 

The Choir of the Theatre of Early Music in concert
conductor, Daniel Taylor

We Will Remember - Shadows To Light
Cordoso Requiem

   
Date:

Nov 14th, 2010; 7:30 pm

Venue

Knox Presbyterian Church

120 Lisgar at Elgin

Ottawa, CA

 

Ars Nova presents the Choir of the Theatre of Early Music
conductor, Daniel Taylor

We Will Remember - Shadows To Light
Cordoso Requiem

Tickets:
Reserved - $65; General - $45; Seniors (65 or over)- $40; Students - $15

Information: Ars Nova
Purchase your tickets for this concert on line:
http://www.danieltaylornov132010.eventbrite.com

   
Date:

Nov 17th - 27th, 2010

City

Ottawa and Montreal

 

Daniel Taylor gives Masterclasses at
the University of Ottawa and
Conservatoire de musique de Montreal

   
Date:

Nov 28th, 2010, 7.30 pm

Venue

Notre-Dame-de- Bon-Secours Chapel

400 Saint-Paul Street

East Montreal H2Y1H4

 

The Montreal Bach Festival presents:
The Choir and Orchestra of the Theatre of Early Music

Christmas Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach:
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Daniel Taylor, conductor / countertenor
Suzie Leblanc, Soprano
and Alexander Dobson, Baritone

Information: Montreal Bach Festival
Tickets for all Montreal Bach Festival concerts at Montreal Box office : 514-581-8637

   
   

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Date: December 3, 7:30 pm (San Francisco)

December 4, 7:30 pm (Berkeley)

December 5, 7:00 pm (Berkeley)

December 7, 7:30 pm (Atherton)
Venue: The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and
Philharmonia Baroque Chorale
San Francisco / Berkeley / Atherton
Conductor, Nicolas McGegan
Chorale director, Bruce Lamott,

Händel: Messiah

Soloists:
Mary Wilson, Daniel Taylor, John McVeigh and Tyler Duncan

Information / tickets : Philharmonia Baroque
   
Date:

December 11th, 7:30 pm

December 13th, 7:30 pm

Venue:

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor, Kent Nagano
Choir conductor, Andrew Megill,

Händel: Messiah

Soloists:
Dominique Labelle, Daniel Taylor, Michael Schade and Tyler Duncan

Notre-Dame Basilica Montreal

Information / tickets : Montreal Symphony Orchestra

 

 

Date:

December 15th, 7:30 pm

December 18th, 7:30 pm

Venue:

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor, Ivars Taurins

Händel: Messiah

Soloists:
Christine Brandes, Daniel Taylor, Rufus Muller and Brett Polegato

Trinity- St. Pauls's Toronto

Launch of 2010 CD/DVD Messiah Recording

Information / tickets : Tafelmusik
Trinity-St. Paul's Box Office: 416-964-6337

 

 

Date:

December 19th, 2:00 pm

Venue:

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor, Ivars Taurins

Händel: Sing-Along Messiah

Soloists:
Christine Brandes, Daniel Taylor, Rufus Muller and Brett Polegato

Massey Hall, Toronto
Information / tickets : Tafelmusik
Massey Hall Box Office: 416-872-4255

   
Date:

December 20th, 7:30 pm

Venue:

McGill Chamber Orchestra

Conductor, Boris Brott

Christ Church Cathedral Choir
directed by Patrick Wedd

Händel: Messiah

Soloists:
Suzie Leblanc, Daniel Taylor, Rufus Müller and Alexander Dobson
Christ Church Cathedral, 1444 Ave Union, Métro McGill, Montreal

Information / tickets : McGill Chamber Orchestra
For ticket and booking information please contact MCO at 514-487-5190 OR info@ocm-mco.org.
Hours of operation: Monday through Thursday 10 am - 4 pm.

   
Date:

December 22th, 7:30 pm

Venue:

Ars Nova presents the Choir and Orchestra of the Theatre of Early Music

Star of Wonder

Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar at Elgin, Ottawa

Christmas Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach:
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Daniel Taylor, conductor / countertenor
Agnes Zsigovics, Soprano
and Alexander Dobson, Baritone

Tickets:
Reserved - $65; General - $45; Seniors (65 or over)- $40; Students - $15

Information: Ars Nova
Purchase your tickets for this concert on line:
http://danieltaylordec2010.eventbrite.com/

 





 

 

 

 

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