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| years_active = | organization = Yale University }} James Taylor (born 1966 in Dallas) is an American tenor, known for singing the Evangelist in works of Johann Sebastian Bach. == Biography == 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.〔(James Taylor ) on the bach-cantatas website〕 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.〔(Oster-Oratorium ) #13 on bach-cantatas〕 With the Gächinger Kantorei and Helmuth Rilling he recorded the ''St John Passion'' in 1996,〔(Edition Bachakademie Vol. 75 St. John Passion ) #73 on bach-cantatas〕 and the ''Christmas Oratorio'' in 2000.〔(Christmas Oratorio ) #79 on bach-cantatas〕 He sang in Bach’s ''Mass in B minor'' in Bamberg with Sir Roger Norrington, and in Haydn’s ''Orlando Paladino'' with Nikolaus Harnoncourt.〔(James Taylor ) on the Gasteig website〕 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. In Taylor's first appearance with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in Carnegie Hall in 2008 he was the Evangelist in the ''St Matthew Passion'', singing with Matthias Goerne and Anna Larsson, among others. The review stated: "Above all, tying the story together, was James Taylor (no, not that James Taylor) as the Evangelist. Yes, his voice was radiant and resounding. More important was his dramatic turn of phrase, his moods from the extreme to the beatific, as he told – through a recitative which verged on aria – the story.".〔(Masur and Transfiguration ) review of Harry Rolnick on concertonet, 22 March 2008〕 His debut in Carnegie Hall was in 2005 the world premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart's ''Great Mass in C minor'' with the Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus and the Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by Helmuth Rilling.〔(Mozart Mass: Chock Full o' Carnegie ) (Bach Festival )〕 He performed Franz Schmidt's ''The Book with Seven Seals'' with the Cleveland Orchestra.〔(James Taylor ) Kennedy Center〕 In 2008 he recorded Britten's ''War Requiem'' with Annette Dasch, Christian Gerhaher and the Festivalensemble Stuttgart under Rilling.〔(War Requiem ) Interpreten (in German)〕 The concert was performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Musikfest of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and at the Beethovenfest in Bonn.〔 In 2009 he appeared with the Gächinger Kantorei and the New York Philharmonic under Helmuth Rilling in Avery Fisher Hall in Handel's ''Messiah'' in 2009,〔(Messiah ) New York Philharmonic, 2009〕 reviewed in the New York Times: "The tenor James Taylor performed with conviction and plenty of bite. ".〔(A Period-Style Taste of a Holiday-Season Staple ) review by Vivian Schweitzer in The New York Times, 16 December 2009〕 Taylor has been a teacher at the Yale University from 2005.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Taylor (tenor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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