DANIEL TAYLOR (countertenor) has made more than 50 recordings, which include Bach Cantatas with the American Bach Soloists/Thomas and the English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner, Renaissance duets with James Bowman and the Actor Ralph Fiennes (BIS), Handel's Rinaldo (winner of a Gramophone Award) with Bartoli and the Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood (DECCA), Handel's Theodora with Les Arts Florissants/Christie (ERATO), Cantatas 'Before Bach' with the Collegium Vocale de Ghent/Herreweghe (HARMONIA MUNDI), Zelenka Masses with Bernius (SONY), Sakamoto's pop-opera Life with Carreras and the Dalai Lama (SONY), Dowland songs (ATMA – Winner of the ADISQ prize), the new work Lost Objects with 'Bang on a Can' (TELDEC) and Bach Cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan (BIS). Daniel Taylor is also featured on many of the Bach Cantata recordings with Sir John Eliot Gardiner due for release over the next five years.

Daniel Taylor's debut at Glyndebourne in Handel's Theodora was greeted with critical praise and followed on his operatic debut in Jonathan Miller's production of Handel's Rodelinda (recorded for EMI). He receives invitations from an ever-widening circle of the world's leading early and contemporary music ensembles, appearing in opera (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, San Francisco, Rome, Welsh National Opera, Canadian Opera), oratorio (Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Les Arts Florissants, Collegium vocale de Ghent, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Gabrieli Consort, the King's Consort, The Academy of Ancient Music), symphonic works (Dallas, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Rotterdam, Montreal), recital (Vienna Konzerthaus; Frick Collection, New York; Forbidden Concert Hall, Beijing; Lufthansa Baroque Festival and Wigmore Hall, London), and film (Podeswa's Five Senses for Fineline-winner at Cannes and also of a Genie). Recent engagements include Daniel's tours with Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir (Handel Messiah and Israel in Egypt), a recital tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Emma Kirkby, his return to the BBC Proms (Bach Cantatas and Britten's Canticle 'Abraham and Isaac'), Handel's Jephtha with McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, a European tour of the St. Matthew Passion with the Gabrieli Consort (McCreesh), his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra (Handel Israel in Egypt), his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Dutroit (Bernstein Chichester Psalms), with the Taiwan National Symphony (Schnitke Faust Cantata), Bach Cantatas with Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale de Ghent (Harmonia Mundi), Couperin Lecons de Tenebres with Robin Blaze (recording for BIS), Messiah with Robert King in Zurich, Bach Cantatas with Helmut Rilling and the Bach Academy Stuttgart, B minor Mass with Bernius and Kammerchor Stuttgart and recitals in Tokyo, Toronto and Lyon. This Fall Daniel took the title role in a new production of Gluck's Orfeo for Opera North at the Edinburgh Festival.

Daniel completed his undergraduate work at McGill University (Literature, Music, Philosophy), his graduate degree at the University of Montreal (Music and Religion), furthering his studies with leaders of the Baroque-specialist movement in Europe. He continues now with Michael Chance. Daniel Taylor is Artistic Director of the Montreal Early Music Festival and a Visiting Professor at McGill University, and Founder and Artistic Director of the Theatre of Early Music, a period-instrument ensemble based in Montreal comprised of musicians from all over the world.  The Theatre of Early Music recently signed a long-term contract with the BIS label.

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