Daniel John Taylor, O.C. has been awarded the inaugural Nationwide Medal for Music. The announcement comes on the heels of his induction as an Workplace of the Order of Canada in December 2022.
Maintaining the momentum, and in his capability as a College of Toronto professor, Taylor and McGill College Opera Director Patrick Hansen will staff as much as current the primary classical music live performance at Toronto’s new state-of-the-art live performance venue, TD Live performance Corridor on the Allied Music Centre on March 2.
The newly minted Nationwide Medal for Music is supposed to symbolize Canada’s highest award within the arts, and shall be given yearly to 2 people whose careers symbolize management within the sector. It acknowledges achievement in addition to affect on the neighborhood. The second recipient for 2023 shall be Canadian political icon, the Proper Honourable Ed Broadbent.
Daniel Taylor
When awarding the Workplace of the Order of Canada, the Workplace of the Governor Normal of Canada referred to as Taylor, “one among our nation’s most celebrated cultural ambassadors, distinguishing himself with shifting performances and recognized for his heat and humour.”
- Founding inventive director and conductor of the Theatre of Early Music and The Trinity Choir;
- Director of Musical Research, Head of Historic Efficiency and Professor on the College of Toronto;
- He was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal;
- He has recorded work that seems on greater than 120 music releases in addition to movies;
- His productions have acquired a number of awards, together with a GRAMMY, JUNO, ADISQ, and BBC Music Award.
As a professor, lots of his opera college students symbolize the style’s vivid stars carving out careers of their very own, together with baritones Jonathon Adams, Joel Allison and Geoffrey Sirett, tenors Isaiah Bell and Owen McCausland, sopranos Rebecca Genge, Jane Fingler, Bronwyn Thies-Thompson, Sinead White and Jennifer Wilson, and countertenors Nicholas Burns, Mikah Meyer, Ryan McDonald and Ian Sabourin.
Taylor’s busy performing profession has taken him to the San Francisco Opera and Welsh Opera, and he has carried out with Opéra de Montréal, and the Canadian Opera Firm. As a soloist, he has carried out on the Edinburgh Pageant, and with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, the symphonies of Madrid, Dallas and Toronto, amongst others.
He not too long ago carried out the title tole in Gluck’s Orfeo on the Teatro Colon, and in Bach’s St. Matthew Ardour on tour in the UK, and shall be returning to London’s Wigmore Corridor later in 2023.
The McGill-College of Toronto Live performance
College students of Taylor’s from the College of Toronto, and college students from the opera departmen tof McGill will come to carry out collectively for the primary time in a Baroque Opera Pasticcio titled Love, Magnificence and Dying in Venice. The live performance represents the primary time the 2 universities have labored collectively of their historical past, and shall be narrated by opera luminary Ben Heppner.
The live performance takes place March 2 at 7:30 p.m. within the TD Live performance Corridor on the Allied Music Centre, an intimate venue with leading edge acoustics. Extra particulars and tickets to be introduced quickly.
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