Bill Taylor and Friends

This concert features Bill Taylor playing along with two woodwind players, Gerold Mohn and Cathy Mohn, and French horn player Stewart Edelstein and singer Jaye Alison Moscariello. We will perform several of Bill’s pieces which are classically-inspired with hints of jazz and show tunes; these are trios, duos, solos, and quartets; and a few songs. Two 20th century classical pieces, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Four Waltzes and Camille Saint-Saens’ Tarantella, will fill out the program.

Partial list of pieces aside from the 2 above:
Ode to Ludwig
Civil Unrest
Hiding From the Law
Saratoga Salsa
Nature’s Dream
Mendocino Coast Storm
Belugas
Of The Woods
Seattle Cascade/Shutters Corners
Sueno Con Bosque Nublado (not sure how to put ~ over the n in Sueno)
Release
Every Time We Meet (by Priscilla Rowe)

About Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor is a composer, pianist, and market gardener/farmer and radio show cohost living in Sandisfield, MA since 2020. Several of his works were performed in March 2019 by the Ukiah Symphony (CA). His two albums (Nature’s Dream, 2018 and Of This Earth, 2011) include solo and ensemble pieces with Paul McCandless (grammy winning reed player with Oregon and Paul Winter Consort), jazz flautist George Husaruk, singer Jaye Alison Moscariello, violinist and concertmaster of Ukiah Symphony Margie Rice, and bassist Yanahay Hooper. He played in the Soul Purpose Band from 2012 to 2020, was church pianist and organist from 2004 to 2020 in northern California and from 2022 to present in West Stockbridge, MA. His farming and environmental awareness and involvement inform his compositions. He studied composition at Cornish School and with composer Ken Benshoof, piano with his father Arnold Taylor, Harriet Shirvan in Boston, and jazz pianist Jerry Gray in Seattle. His music was featured in several films produced by Jaye Alison Moscariello. In June 2023 and again in 2024 he was a composer at the Mostly Modern Festival where his chamber pieces Regenerate, Heal, Cool, Normalizing Evil and others were performed. He is working on a third album.