{"id":632,"date":"2017-02-09T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brybrysite.wordpress.com\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T10:36:38","slug":"joan-taylor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/faculty\/joan-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Joan Taylor<\/strong>, born in Warwick, studied piano at the Birmingham School of Music, read Music at the University of Oxford and subsequently gained a Diploma in Education at the University of Cambridge.\u00a0 She has had a long career as soloist, accompanist, repetiteur, lecturer and teacher.\u00a0 Her own teachers have included Lilian Niblette (a pupil of pianist Fanny Davies \u2013 herself a pupil of Clara Schumann) and Gerald Moore, who partnered her with mezzo-soprano Ann Murray.\u00a0 She accompanied Ann in many broadcasts and recitals, including Ann\u2019s first Wigmore Hall recital and her debut BBC Radio 3 broadcast.<\/p>\n

Joan was a Music lecturer at Morley College, London, for more than twenty-five years, particularly enjoying teaching sight-singing and training non-singers to sing well.\u00a0 The \u2018Can\u2019t Sing Choir\u2019 featured in a documentary on BBC Radio 4, was broadcast on BBC1, CNN, Canadian Television and the BBC World Service, and major articles appeared in the Berliner Zeitung<\/em> and Sunday Telegraph<\/em>, describing the success of Joan\u2019s teaching and vocal and therapeutic benefits to her students.\u00a0 In recognition of her work with the choir she was awarded Freedom of the London Borough of Southwark in 1999.<\/p>\n

In 2015 Joan was repetiteur for rehearsals at the Royal Opera House leading up to the world premi\u00e8re of Zaid Jabri\u2019s Cities of Salt<\/em>, part of the Shubbak Festival in London.<\/p>\n

She has a special interest in Czech music, and in 2017 recorded a CD of some of the music of Karel Janovicky \u2013 song cycles and his fifth piano sonata \u2013 with Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) and John Turner (recorder).\u00a0 In April 2019 Joan premi\u00e8red the song cycle of poems from A Shropshire Lad<\/em>, also by Janovicky, for the Dvo\u0159ak Society, with BBC Singer Katherine Nicholson (mezzo-soprano). \u00a0Karel\u2019s ninetieth birthday was featured on BBC Radio 3 in 2020 and Joan\u2019s recording of the slow movement of Karel\u2019s piano sonata was broadcast on the station\u2019s breakfast programme.<\/p>\n

Joan recently relocated from her South East London home and now divides her time between the Dorset coast and London.\u00a0 She is involved in coaching young singers, accompanying them in competitions and auditions.\u00a0 Joan is repetiteur for the Blackheath Choir, London, under the musical direction of Patricia Williams, and since 1991 has enjoyed her role as accompanist and Musicianship tutor for the LSG International Summer School at Bryanston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Jillian Leddra Jillian was brought up in New Zealand but studied the violin in Australia. After graduating she played professionally in an opera and ballet orchestra. When attending an Australian String Teachers\u2019 conference she met the first American teacher to study with Suzuki in Japan, John Kendall, graduate of the Juillard School in New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26925,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions\/5903"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}