Saxophonist Rhonda Taylor (b. 1976) is dedicated to the creation and performance of meaningful sonic art of our time. She has worked with a variety of today’s most outstanding composers, including Bernard Rands, Robert Morris, Jeffrey Mumford, and Robert Lemay. She has also commissioned and premiered works by such emerging composers as Rick Burkhardt, Avi Tchamni, Justin Rubin, Chris Arrell, Ben Carson, and Jon Forshee. Her recent activities include presenting a recital of late 20th century solo saxophone works at Spivey Hall in Atlanta, lecture recitals on Gérard Grisey’s Anubis et Nout at institutions in the U.S. and abroad, solo performances at NASA Biennials, World Saxophone Congresses, and at new music festivals throughout the United States. Her primary teachers were Kelland Thomas at the University of Arizona and John Sampen at Bowling Green State University. She also studied with Jean-Marie Londeix and Jean-François Guay at Domaine Forget, and with Arno Bornkamp, Jean-Michel Goury, and Kenneth Radnofsky at the International Clarinet and Saxophone Connection at New England Conservatory. Dr. Taylor has been on faculty at New Mexico State University since 2003, where she is the College Professor of Saxophone and Music Theory.
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