Taylor
Soprano
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Soprano Taylor Kirk has had the joy of multiple acclaimed performances at Carnegie Hall, La MaMa and the Baruch Performing Arts Center. She has a particular affinity for oratorio, and was thrilled to return to the Westchester Korean Choral Society to perform Gabriel, in Haydn's Creation, as well as soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah, which she has performed on numerous occasions at Scarsdale Community Baptist Church in addition to a wide variety of sacred music. She has had the privilege of performing at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein in Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony No. 3, and Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
She also advanced to the New York Lyric Opera Theatre's National Voice Competition Finals, held at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and performed several times in the Art Song Preservation Society's “Spring Into Song” series working with Mark Markham, Thomas Grubb and Thomas Muraco.
She also performed the role of Linfea, in La Calisto, with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, and was a semi-finalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation International Voice Competition, a finalist in the Career Bridges Grant Competition, the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International Voice Competition and the Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin Competition. She also sings on the recording of Pauline Viradot’s opera, Le Dernier Sorcier, an Opera News critic's choice winner.
She made her NYC debut in dell’Arte Opera Ensemble as Poussette in Manon, and Bianca in La Rondine, and has performed the roles of Micaëla in Carmen and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Purchase Opera. She has performed solo concerts with the WKCS and the National Repertory Orchestra. She sings on Purchase Opera’s recording of Lee Hoiby’s The Tempest, and performed in the world premiere concert of Paul Lustig Dunkel’s Casey at the Bat.
She was Frontier Airlines’ New Artist of the West, upon the release of her debut album, Simple Gifts. She was a special guest artist performing “Somewhere” with Steph Carse on PBS, and was signed to Sony Classical.
She is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music(C), where she studied with Bonnie Hamilton. She currently studies with Neil Semer, and is completing her graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology at SUNY New Paltz. She is mother to a wonderful daughter, is an avid hiker, Francophile, metalhead and bookworm. She enjoys living in upstate NY.