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George Taylor

George Taylor

New York City native George Taylor studied at the City College of New York and the Manhattan School of Music with Burton Kaplan, Raphael Bronstein, Jaime Laredo, and Michael Tree. From 1979 to 1986 he was a member of Duke University's Ciompi String Quartet, and he was co-founder and conductor of the St. Stephens Chamber Orchestra in Durham, North Carolina. Taylor is also a member of the Black Music Repertory Ensemble, which presents music of American black composers in concerts throughout the country. He joined the faculty at the Eastman School of Music in 1986. He is a member of the string quartet that was assembled specifically for the Milken Archive recording of John Zorn's Kol Nidre on the disc, Jewish String Quartets (Naxos 8.559451).

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