Nicholas Taylor

Nicholas Taylor

Nick Taylor joined the army at 17, training at Kneller Hall, studying band arranging and harmony before arriving at the Coldstream Guards band. His role there was playing clarinet, violin and piano. Nick’s main instrument was the piano which he studied with John Barstow from the Royal College of music. During this period Nick also performed Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ on numerous occasions.

After leaving the army in 1985, Nick attended the Colchester Institute studying piano with Robert Bell, a former Gold Medal winner at the Guildhall School of Music. Nick was a member of several chamber groups, performing works such as the Schumann Piano Quintet, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Khachaturian piano trios.

On graduating college with a BA (Hons) in music he became a music teacher at Stamford School in Lincolnshire until his retirement. Nick has performed many different piano concertos with orchestras around the country: Tchaikowsky B flat minor, Rachmaninoff Concertos 2 and 3, Beethoven Op 37 No. 3, Op 58, No. 4, and the triple concerto Op. 56, Mozart D minor (K466), Bb major (K456) and A major K488, Grieg and Schumann A minor Piano Concertos, Mendelssohn 2nd Concerto, Gershwin F minor Concerto and smaller scale works such as the Litolf Scherzo, J. S. Bach Brandenburg concertos and his own Piano Rhapsody.

As a soloist, Nick has performed numerous piano recitals around the country, including works from all genres and musical periods, with a strong passion for the romantic period. His role as an accompanist has covered many years of varied and challenging repertoire.