About
Soprano Taylor Kirk has had the joy of multiple acclaimed performances at Carnegie Hall, La MaMa, the Baruch Performing Arts Center and throughout Europe. She has a particular affinity for oratorio and has performed the repertoire extensively throughout her career. Notable engagements include performing with the Westchester Korean Choral Society as the soprano soloist, Gabriel, in Haydn's Creation, as well as Handel's Messiah, which she has performed on numerous occasions at Scarsdale Community Baptist Church, in addition to a wide variety of sacred music. She has had the privilege of performing at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein in Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony No. 3, and Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
She also advanced to the New York Lyric Opera Theatre's National Voice Competition Finals, held at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and performed several times in the Art Song Preservation Society's “Spring Into Song” series working with Mark Markham, Thomas Grubb and Thomas Muraco.
She also performed the role of Linfea, in La Calisto, with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble to much critical acclaim, and was a semi-finalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation International Voice Competition, a finalist in the Career Bridges Grant Competition, the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International Voice Competition and the Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin Competition. She also sings on the recording of Pauline Viradot’s opera, Le Dernier Sorcier, an Opera News critic's choice winner.
She made her NYC debut in dell’Arte Opera Ensemble as Poussette in Manon, and has performed other roles such as Micaëla in Carmen, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Bianca in La Rondine and the title role of Amahl in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She has performed solo concerts with the WKCS and the National Repertory Orchestra. She sings on Purchase Opera’s recording of Lee Hoiby’s The Tempest and performed in the world premiere concert of Paul Lustig Dunkel’s Casey at the Bat.
She was Frontier Airlines’ New Artist of the West, upon the release of her debut album, Simple Gifts. She was a special guest artist performing “Somewhere” with Grammy winner Steph Carse on PBS and was signed to Sony Classical.
She is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music(C), where she studied with Bonnie Hamilton. She currently studies with Neil Semer and has a M.S., TSSLD in Communication Disorders from SUNY New Paltz. She is mother to a wonderful daughter, an avid hiker, Francophile, metalhead and bookworm. She enjoys living in the Hudson valley of NY, and working as a Speech-Language Pathologist.
Auf Deutschland - 2024
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