TAYLOR BROOK
502 West 148th st, New York, NY, 10031, USA
173 Churchill Road, Salt Spring, BC, V8K 2R3, Canada
Tel: (347) 559 3314 taylor.brook@gmail.com www.taylorbrookmusic.com
Taylor Brook has studied composition with Brian Cherney in Montreal, Luc Brewaeys in
Brussels, and George Lewis, and Georg Haas in New York. Brook has also studied
Hindustani musical performance in Kolkata, India, with Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya.
His music is often concerned with finely-tuned microtonal sonorities and toying with
multifarious musical references and syles.
Brook writes concert music, music for video, and music for theater and dance.
His work has been performed around the world and has been described as "gripping"
and "engrossing" by the New York Times. Brook has won numerous awards and prizes
for his compositions, including the MIVOS/Kantor prize, the Lee Ettelson award, and
five SOCAN young composers awards. Brook has been a finalist in the Gaudeamus
prize and was awarded honorable mention for the Jules Leger prize two years in a row.
His music has been performed by ensembles and soloists such as the Nouvel
Ensemble Moderne, Quatuor Bozzini, JACK Quartet, MIVOS quartet, Talea Ensemble,
Ascolta Ensemble, and many others. Brook's current projects include a new piece for
Talea Ensemble, an album of his music with TAK ensemble, and a piece for solo flute
and ensemble for Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+).
Brook holds a master’s degree in music composition from McGill University. He
currently resides in New York City, where he is completing a doctorate in music
composition at Columbia University.
EDUCATION
Columbia University
Doctorate in Music Composition
Canada Council for the Arts
professional development grant
McGill University
M.Mus., Music Composition
Acanthes Music Festival, France
Domaine Forget, Quebec, New Music
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Young Composers Program
Bhattacharya School of Music (Kolkata, India)
McGill University
B.Mus. Honors, Music Composition
September 2011 Jan. – Aug. 2011
November 2010
July 2010/2011
August 2009
June 2008
Winter 2008
May 2007
RESIDENCIES
Vancouver New Music, Vancouver
Nu:nord Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo
Gaudeamus composition competition finalist, Utrecht
Dian Red Kechill Young Composers Forum, Singapore
MATA New Music Festival, New York
Artspring residency with Quatuor Bozzini, Salt Spring Island
Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival, Winnipeg
Banff centre via Gruppo Montebello (Henk Guittart, dir.)
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Young Composers FORUM
March 2015
August 2014
September
2013 May 2013
April 2013
August 2012
March 2012
October 2011
November 2010
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Pierre Mercure Award ($750) for the solo guitar work Sui Generis, SOCAN Young
Composers competition 2014
Jules Leger Prize 2013 — honorable mention for "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan"
MIVOS/Kantor prize ($300 and performance) for new works for string quartet the string
quaret El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan.
Robert Fleming Prize ($2,000) for the best personal musical project of Spring 2013, Canada
Council for the Arts
Serge Garant Prize ($750) for the string quaret El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan,
SOCAN Young Composers competition 2013
Jules Leger Prize 2012 — honorable mention for Against the Morning
Winner of APNM call for scores with solo violin piece, Vocalise
Finalist in the American Composers Forum string quartet competition ($1,750 and a
performance by the JACK quartet)
Honorable mention in the MIVOS/Kantor prize 2012for new works for string quartet
Second prize ($2,000) and Prix Public ($500), Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Young Composers
FORUM 2010, Montreal
Serge Garant Award ($1,500) for the chamber ensemble work Kolkata Predawn, SOCAN
Young Composers competition 2010
Pierre Mercure Award ($2,250) for the solo violin work Vocalise, SOCAN Young
Composers competition 2010
2010 Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award, Composers, Inc, San Francisco
Coup de Coeur award from Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Montreal, September 2009
Pierre Mercure Award ($250) for the solo piano work It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there,
SOCAN Young Composers competition 2009
Awarded full bursary to attend the 2009 New Music session at Domaine Forget and a
commission from the Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne for outstanding work during the 2007
New Music session at Domaine Forget
Awarded full bursary to attend the Young Composers Program, Canadian National Arts
Centre, Ottawa, June 2008
Eric Award: awarded annually to an undergraduate at McGill University for outstanding
work in the realm of electroacoustic music, September 2006
BURSARIES AND GRANTS
Professional development grant ($4,500) from the Canada Council for the Arts to write for
Quatuor Bozzini in a collaborative project
Doctoral fellowship from Columbia University ($28,000 annually for a minimum of 5 years)
Professional development grant ($20,000) from the Canada Council for the Arts to study with
the composer Luc Brewaeys in Brussels in 2011
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Joseph Bombardier Master’s
research grant ($17,500), awarded May 2009
Awarded Principal’s Graduate Fellowship as well as Provost’s Graduate Fellowship from
McGill University, September 2008