- Violin
- Session A and B
- Annette and Ken Hallock Chair
Allie Taylor is a Graduate student at the University of Michigan, pursuing a Master’s of Music in Violin Performance, a Master’s of Music in Improvisation, and a Master’s of Music in Chamber Music. She will also receive a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Allie is a 3-time DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award winner (in the Jazz Vocal and Pop/Rock/Blues categories), a 2-time semifinalist in the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative Competition, the first-place winner of the Allegro Society Instrumental Scholarship Competition, and has performed internationally, from London to India (where she studied Carnatic violin).
What are you most looking forward to this summer with the NRO?
I am so excited to meet and collaborate with my talented peers, and work under Michael Stern and Carl Topilow. I am particularly looking forward to playing the Bach Double Violin Concerto with Midori in July!
What is something interesting that people may not know about you?
I love to write music—especially musical theater! Recent composition projects include a two-act comedic musical, Diseducated, co-written with Sammy Sussman and The Bachelor: The Musical: A Video, a multi-episode Instagram-based musical written with Sammy Sussman during quarantine this past year.