James Taylor (tenor)
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| Born | 1966 (age 50–51) Dallas |
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| Organization | Yale University |
James Taylor (born 1966 in Dallas) is an American tenor, known for singing the Evangelist in works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
James Taylor grew up in Houston. He studied singing with Arden Hopkin at the Texas Christian University. He continued his studies on a Fulbright scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Adalbert Kraus and Daphne Evangelatos.
He has internationally appeared in Bach's cantatas and oratorios. He recorded the Easter Oratorio in 1994 with the Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe. With the Gächinger Kantorei and Helmuth Rilling he recorded the St John Passion in 1996, and the Christmas Oratorio in 2000. He sang in Bach’s Mass in B minor in Bamberg with Sir Roger Norrington, and in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In 2000 he performed the role of Neptune in the first modern revival of Giovanni Legrenzi's La divisione del mondo at the Schwetzingen Festival.
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