Anthony Taylor

Anthony Taylor has been contributing to the arts in North Carolina since he moved to the state in 2007. That year, he began posts as clarinet professor at the UNC Greensboro School of Music and Principal Clarinet of the Winston-Salem Symphony. A native of Washington state, he had held college positions at Washington State University, Whitman College, Whitworth College, Eastern Washington University, and Gonzaga University, and performance positions with the Spokane Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Spokane Opera, and Zephyr (new music) before moving to North Carolina. 

Taylor served as Faculty Mentor at the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas for five years before joining the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival. He is excited to return to the campus of Guilford College for the inaugural year of the Eastern Festival of Music. As a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and an experienced orchestral player, Taylor uses a wide array of tools to help players fine tune their performance skills. 

Taylor’s clarinet and bass clarinet playing can be heard on commercial recordings on the Métier, Cirrus, Albany, Oasis, Steinway, Navona, Naxos, Centaur, and Gothic labels. Two new recordings he contributed to are due out in 2026, a recording of the wind music of Louis Ballard, from Trésona/Equilibrium Records, and a recording from Orchid Classics/Blue Cloud, of Douglas J. Cuomo’s “a raft, the sky, the wild sea”, featuring the Winston-Salem Symphony and acclaimed jazz tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano.