A native of North Carolina, tenor David Tayloe has made appearances with the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Louisiana, Opera Birmingham, Piedmont Opera Company, the A.J. Fletcher Institute, LSU Opera, and Frost Opera Theater. As a concert singer, he has performed as Obadiah in Elijah, the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion as well as the tenor soloist in the Magnificat, Finzi’s Dies Natalis, Han del’s Messiah, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung , Lord Nelson Mass, Paukenmesse and Theresian Messe, Schu bert’s Mass in A flat major, and Britten’s Serenade.
An avid performer of Art Song, David has presented recitals across the United States and Europe, inclu ding a tour of Schubert’s Winterreise. David has col laborated with composers on their origi nal work including Libby Larsen, Ben Moore, Jake Runestad and Thomas Sleeper, including the West Coast pre miere of Ben Moore’s Dear Theo, the world première of A Page Out of Zen by Ryan Jesperson, and the world première of Thomas Sleeper’s Beatrice Bends for her Blue Ball.
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