The oboist Stephen Taylor holds the Mrs John D. Rockefeller III solo oboe chair with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is also solo oboe with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St Luke’s, the St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of chamber music), the American Composers Orchestra, the New England Bach Festival Orchestra, the renowned contemporary music group Speculum Musicae, and plays as co-principal oboe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician at such major festivals as Spoleto, Caramoor International Music Festival, Aldeburgh, Bravo! Colorado, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and Schleswig- Holstein. His discography includes some 200 recordings, including Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle, Bach’s Oboe d’amore Concerto, as well as first recordings of Wolpe’s Oboe Quartet, Elliott Carter’s Oboe Quartet, for which he received a Grammy Nomination, and works of André Previn. Trained at the Juilliard School by teachers Lois Wann and Robert Bloom, Stephen Taylor is a member of its faculty as well as of the Yale School of Music, SUNY Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music. The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University awarded him a performer’s grant in 1981. He plays on a rare Caldwell model Loree oboe.
