Edwin R. Taylor

Following in my dad’s Cincinnati Conservatory of Music footsteps, I have spent my life serving churches as music director; minister of music; organist/pianist; choral/orchestral conductor; composer/arranger; and concert series designer/funder/director.  I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Church Music and a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance from Westminster Choir College, in Princeton, New Jersey, and have served church music ministries in Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, and Fort Myers, Florida; Ridgefield, Connecticut; and Flint, Michigan.  As School Photographer in college, I photographed, developed, and printed pictures of each of the conductors under whom we, in the Westminster Symphonic Choir, sang/recorded in New York, Washington, Montreal, Pittsburgh, including Leopold Stowkowski, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Loren Maazel, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, Rafael Kubelik, Lukas Foss, and others.  After a career of full-time church music ministries, teaching as adjunct professor in a couple colleges, conducting choirs and orchestras (including occasional premieres), composing and arranging, and, most of all, striving to make a difference in the world of sacred music, I currently devote much of my time to composing fresh new hymntunes, simple to elaborate hymn reharmonizations, hymn descants, and Anglican Psalm tones, all the while serving as part-time music director at a church in Florida, serving on the Board of two chapters of the American Guild of Organists, and singing—along with my wife—in an excellent community chorus.