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Taylor Long is a percussionist, sound artist, and educator. He has appeared at the Darmstadt Courses (Germany), New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), Transplanted Roots Symposium (Portugal), Frequency Series (Chicago), Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Indianapolis), Oh My Ears New Music Festival (Phoenix) and at venues including Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy), Pioneerworks (Brooklyn), Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Rhizome (Washington DC), Harvestworks (Manhattan), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis) and Carnegie Hall.
Taylor is a member of Ensemble Decipher, a technologically oriented composer/performer collective, with performances at Other Minds Series, New Music Gathering, Interpretations Series, Earth Day Art Model, EarFest, NowNet Arts Conference, Network Festival, and Emruz Festival, and residencies at universities including Michigan State University, Peabody Institute, Knox College, and SUNY Potsdam. Taylor also performs/creates with Rob Cosgrove as low pass, with performances at Resource Series (Minneapolis), Gnarly Bard Theater (St. Cloud) and universities including St. Cloud State University, Valley City State University, Buffalo State College, Muhlenberg College, Union College, and SUNY Purchase. low pass has also presented sound installations including Broadcast Presence (Practice Gallery; Philadelphia), Floaters (Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo) and Stations (Bard Center for Experimental Humanities; Annandale-on-Hudson).
Taylor is currently section percussionist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra and has extensive experience as an orchestral performer with groups such as the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Oregon Mozart Players, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New Manhattan Sinfonietta, Newport Symphony, Portland-Columbia Symphony, Bach Cantata Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Portland Choir and Orchestra, and more. He made his concerto debut with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra in 2022 performing Tan Dun’s percussion concerto The Tears of Nature.
Taylor is Assistant Professor of Percussion and Audio Production at Valley City State University, current PAS North Dakota Chapter President, and was formerly Percussion Teaching Fellow at the Bard College Conservatory. He holds degrees from Stony Brook University (DMA), the University of Kansas (MM), and Portland State University (BM).
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