Taylor Long

Taylor Long

Valley City State University

Taylor Long is a percussionist, sound artist, and educator. He has appeared at the Darmstadt Courses (Germany), New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), Frequency Series (Chicago), Transplanted Roots Symposium (Portugal), Oh My Ears New Music Festival (Phoenix) and at venues including Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy), Pioneerworks (Brooklyn), Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Rhizome (Washington DC), Harvestworks (Manhattan), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis) and Carnegie Hall. 

Taylor is a member of Ensemble Decipher, a technologically oriented composer/performer collective, with performances at Other Minds Series, New Music Gathering, Interpretations Series, Earth Day Art Model, EarFest, NowNet Arts Conference, Network Festival, and Emruz Festival. Taylor also performs/creates with Rob Cosgrove as low pass. low pass has presented and performed at universities, art galleries, conferences and concert series throughout the U.S. and abroad. 

Taylor is currently section percussionist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra and has extensive experience as a percussionist/timpanist with orchestras across the U.S. He made his concerto debut with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra in 2022 performing Tan Dun’s percussion concerto The Tears of Nature.

Taylor is Assistant Professor of Percussion at Valley City State University, current PAS North Dakota Chapter President, and was formerly Percussion Teaching Fellow at the Bard College Conservatory. He holds degrees from Stony Brook University (DMA), the University of Kansas (MM), and Portland State University (BM).

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Taylor Long is a percussionist, sound artist, and educator. He has appeared at the Darmstadt Courses (Germany), New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), Frequency Series (Chicago), Transplanted Roots Symposium (Portugal), Oh My Ears New Music Festival (Phoenix) and at venues including Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy), Pioneerworks (Brooklyn), Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Rhizome (Washington DC), Harvestworks (Manhattan), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis) and Carnegie Hall. 

Taylor is a member of Ensemble Decipher, a technologically oriented composer/performer collective, with performances at Other Minds Series, New Music Gathering, Interpretations Series, Earth Day Art Model, EarFest, NowNet Arts Conference, Network Festival, and Emruz Festival. Taylor also performs/creates with Rob Cosgrove as low pass. low pass has presented and performed at universities, art galleries, conferences and concert series throughout the U.S. and abroad. 

Taylor is currently section percussionist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra and has extensive experience as a percussionist/timpanist with orchestras across the U.S. He made his concerto debut with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra in 2022 performing Tan Dun’s percussion concerto The Tears of Nature.

Taylor is Assistant Professor of Percussion at Valley City State University, current PAS North Dakota Chapter President, and was formerly Percussion Teaching Fellow at the Bard College Conservatory. He holds degrees from Stony Brook University (DMA), the University of Kansas (MM), and Portland State University (BM).

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