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Instrument Inspired by Double-Manual Steinway |
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The Chicago Tribune reports: "It won't come as a surprise to anyone who knows Christopher Taylor that the internationally acclaimed pianist and UW-Madison professor of music is now inventing a musical instrument.
Between performing and teaching engagements across the U.S., Asia and Europe, Taylor has been drawing up blueprints for an instrument inspired by the 80-year-old double-keyboard Steinway piano in his campus office that he is known for
championing. The piano, with two sets of hammers but only one set of strings, allows a pianist additional room to maneuver in compositions with highly intricate fingerings.... Taylor's proposal for his invention won him a $20,000 Emily
Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts from UW-Madison, given annually to a faculty member for creative research. He'll use the money to pay a patent lawyer and to develop a small prototype of the instrument." |
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"Taylor possesses one of the great keyboard techniques of our time and has a probing mind, musical and otherwise." (LA Times) |
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Latest Raves
Schumann Piano Concerto: "Taylor stepped on the gas and delivered a sharp, driven performance that proved irresistible. It showed why Romanticism took off."
Well Tempered Ear
Bach Goldberg Variations: "He phrased with great beauty. He supplied graceful Baroque decorations. He elucidated intricate counterpoint with crystal clarity. Fast variations flew by. Dance movements danced. The playing was simple,
direct, intensely musical, structurally illuminating. But, more, this was a powerfully dramatic performance."
Los Angeles Times
John Adams 'Eros Piano': "a scintillating piano soloist.... an extended and serious work given a first-rate performance."
Classical Voice North Carolina
Read More about Christopher Taylor's recent performances. |
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Upcoming: A Return to Carnegie Hall and 2013 Planning |
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Carnegie Hall: Christopher Taylor returns to Carnegie Hall tonight to perform Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' 'Sea Orpheus' with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The New York
Times wrote of his premiere of the work last spring: "an engagingly virtuosic score. Christopher Taylor gave a brilliant, energetic account"
2012-2013 Season: Looking ahead, Taylor will offer Witold Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto, especially to honor of the composer's 100th anniversary in 2013.
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PHOTO CREDIT: Katrin Talbot |
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