Benedict Taylor is a British avant-garde

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and composer.

Career

Taylor works in contemporary composition, modern string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. The central focus of his work is in new composition for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation, and electroacoustic composition. In performance, he predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music. Within his performance work there is a focus on solo performance as a creative and investigative process. In 2013 he initiated an ongoing commission series and solo label Subverten (For Viola Solo). The first works premiered in autumn 2013 and continue several times each year. He has worked with a number of music organisations and ensembles including; clapTON Ensemble, re:sound, London Improvisers Orchestra, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, Project Instrumental, Tokyo Improvisers Orchestra, Kammer Klang Players, Squib-Box, ARCO, London Sinfonietta Collective, Regular Music II. Notable festival, venue and radio appearances include; Jazz en Nord Festival France, Tete a Tete Opera Festival,

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, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte – Montepulciano,

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (also known by the acronym HCMF, stylised since 2006 as the lowercase hcmf//) is a new music festival held annually in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Since its foundation in 1978, it has feature ...

, Fete de la Musique Berlin, Manchester International Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Festival, BBC Radio 3,

Resonance FM Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station specialising in the arts run by the London Musicians' Collective (LMC). The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and ...

, Radio Libertaire/Epsilonia (Paris).

Personal life

He married Indian actress

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in 2012.

Awards

*Royal Philharmonic Society – Sir John Barbirolli Award (solo viola) *Lynn Foundation Scholarship (solo viola) *Westmorland Music Society Grant (solo viola) * Crystal Bear,

Berlinale The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

2014 (''Killa'') *International Jury Special Mention, Berlinale 2014 (''Killa'') *Transylvania Trophy (Best Film) TIFF (Ship of Theseus) *Jury Special Mention BFI London Film Festival (Ship of Theseus) *

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selection: Centenary Celebration – 15 life changing films (Ship of Theseus) *Grand Jury Award – New York SAIFF (The Bright Day)

Discography

Solo

* SWARM for solo strings * Rend (ROAM Releases) solo violin * Solstice (Nachtstück Records) Benedict Taylor solo viola * Caged Guerrillas (Subverten) - score and album for viola and distorted viola by Benedict Taylor * A Purposeless Play (Subverten) Benedict Taylor solo viola * Pugilism (Subverten) Benedict Taylor solo viola * Transit Check (CRAM) – Benedict Taylor, Solo Viola *Alluere (Subverten) Benedict Taylor, Solo Viola * Striations (Subverten) – Benedict Taylor, Solo Viola

Collaborations

* Landscapes - Paul Dunmall, Philip Gibbs, Benedict Taylor, Ashley John Long (FMR 2019) * Close , Quarters (A New Wave of Jazz 2019) Benedict Taylor & Anton Mobin *Rechtschaffen & Kales (ROAM 2019) Benedict Taylor, Tom Jackson, Chihiro Ono, Neil Luck * Puncture Cycle (A New Wave of Jazz) Benedict Taylor & Dirk Serries * Live at ZSenne Art Lab 11/10/18 (Roam) Tom Jackson & Benedict Taylor * Prossime Trascendenze (Amirani Records) * Miya / Benedict + 7 Maestros: Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn Tokyo 2017 (Suon Records) * Alex Ward Item 10 - Volition (Live at Cafe Oto) * In bed later, lying near the wall, his knees pulled up and his face resting on the striped ticking of the mattress, Leventhal went over his mistakes. (Roam) Tom Jackson & Benedict Taylor * TONUS: Texture Point (New Wave of Jazz) Dirk Serries, Martina Verhoeven, Benedict Taylor * Songs From Brightly-Lit Rooms (Squib Box) Tom Jackson & Benedict Taylor * Hidden Bomba (Linear Obsessional) Chris Cundy & Benedict Taylor * Four Quartets (Confront Recordings) Benedict Taylor, Tom Jackson, Keith Tippett, Ashley John Long * Alexandertwatz in Berlin (Sardine Butty) Benedict Taylor & Stephen Crowe * Hunt at the Brook (FMR) Benedict Taylor, Daniel Thompson & Tom Jackson * Stow , Phasing (Raw Tonk) Benedict Taylor & Anton Mobin * Gubbins - Benedict Taylor & Adam de la Cour * Burn Before Listening - The Rejected Recordings of Benny Court & Benny Taylor (Squib Box) * Songs from Badly-Lit Rooms (Squib Box) – Tom Jackson & Benedict Taylor * Dark Voices (CRAM) – Lawrence Upton & Benedict Taylor * Guests on Tape – Anton Mobin & Benedict Taylor * Une Nuit De Bruit (Sombre Soniks) – Benedict Taylor, Anton Mobin, Adio Lawal-West, Andrew Page, P23,Tim Drage * Compost (CRAM) – Daniel Thompson, Alex Ward, Benedict Taylor * The Long Half Day (Slightly Off Kilter) – Carousel Collective & Thomas Mindhouse * Last Wayne Days (Squib Box) – Neil Luck,

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& Arco * Lio, Leo, Leon (Emanem) – London Improvisers Orchestra * Singing Marram III & IV (Subverten) – Benedict Taylor Solo Viola. Graphic scores Lawrence Upton

Composition

Solo

* Sleepwalkers (film score) * In Response to - concept album part 2 - release 2020 * To Whom It May Concern - concept album part 1 - release 2020 *

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* Guerrillas in Boxes * One Jewish Boy ( Stephen Laughton. Old Red Lion Theatre) * Guerrillas 2018 - Nonclassical October 2018 * Young Hot Bloods (Longsight Theatre) *

The Hungry ''The Hungry'' is a 2017 Indian drama film directed by Bornila Chatterjee. It was filmed by London-based cinematographer Nick Cooke. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and is a m ...

(Bornila Chatterjee. Film London 2017) * Caged Guerrillas - for soloist or small ensemble. Score and album premiere Phantom Gallery Chicago 2017 * Guerrillas 2016 - for soloist or small ensemble. Premiere - Nonclassical October 2016 * Oysters (Pratyusha Gupta 2016) * Mr Incredible (Camilla Whitehall. Dir - Sarah Meadows) * Where Do Little Birds Go (Camilla Whitehall. Dir - Sarah Meadows) * YOU (Mark Wilson. Dir - Sarah Meadows) Duck Down Theatre Company * Fireworks (Dalia Taha. Dir - Richard Twyman)

Royal Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England ...

* The Djinns of Eidgah (Abishek Majumdar. Dir - Richard Twyman)

* The Bright Day (Mohit Takalkar) * Maunraag (Vaibhav Abnave) * Waves of Power (Rajesh Thind) * Citizen Soldiers (Rajesh Thind) * Our Stories: Living and Coping with Schizophrenia in India

Collaborations

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Udta Punjab ''Udta Punjab'' () is a 2016 Indian black comedy crime drama film written and directed by Abhishek Chaubey, co-written by Sudip Sharma, and produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Sameer Nair and Aman Gill under Balaji Motion Pictures in assoc ...

'' (2016) - Background score with Naren Chandavarkar *

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- Music Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * Balekempa 'The Bangle Seller' - Music Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * '' Newton'' - Music Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * '' Gurgaon'' Music – Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * '' Killa'' Music – Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * ''

Ship of Theseus The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object that has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. According to legend, Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, had rescued the children ...

'' Music – Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * ''

Harud ''Harud'' () is a 2010 Indian Kashmiri-language film directed by Aamir Bashir in his feature-film directorial debut. It is an independent, art house drama. ''Harud'' premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Reza ...

'' Music – Benedict Taylor, Naren Chandavarkar, Suhaas Abuja * ''

That Girl in Yellow Boots ''That Girl in Yellow Boots'' is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language thriller film by director Anurag Kashyap, starring Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah. The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, follo ...

'' Music – Benedict Taylor, Naren Chandavarkar & Suhaas Ahuja * Butoh (Maria Guerberof). Music – Benedict Taylor & Alison Blunt * The Dead Can Dance (Typewriters Collective). Music – Benedict Taylor & Alison Blunt * ''

Laal Kaptaan ''Laal Kaptaan '' () is 2019 Indian Hindi-language epic western action drama film co-written and directed by Navdeep Singh. It was produced by Eros International and Aanand L Rai's Colour Yellow Productions. The film stars Saif Ali Khan as ...

'' Background Scores - Benedict Taylor & Naren Chandavarkar * '' Chintu Ka Birthday'' * '' Searching for Sheela''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Benedict 1982 births Living people British classical musicians British experimental musicians Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London