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Pianist/Faculty Member Maria del Pico Taylor, a native of Havana, Cuba, is a Professor of Piano at Temple University in Philadelphia; Co-founder and Co-director of the Philadelphia Piano Festival and Founder and Artistic Director of Latin Fiesta Inc., an 8 member performing ensemble under the management of Monica Robinson Ltd, New York. This ensemble is on the Artists in Education Roster of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and recently performed at the Academy of Music in a pre-concert encounter in collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Maria Taylor was the first Cuban pianist to receive the coveted Canada Council Grant for advanced studies at the University of Toronto, where she graduated with distinction with an Artist and Licentiate diploma in Piano Performance. She also holds an MM degree from Northwestern University. Ms. Taylor is a devoted student of Dorothy Taubman and is a full-time faculty member at the Dorothy Taubman Institute of Piano at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. She has been working on the Taubman method since the Institute's first seminar in New York in 1977, where she studied with Ms. Edna Golandsky. Professor Taylor is responsible for introducing the Taubman technique to the Philadelphia audiences and is a frequent presenter of lectures and master classes on the Taubman technique throughout the USA and has also been a guest clinician in France, Poland, England and the Czech Republic. In 1984 Maria Taylor was the winner of the Lindback Award for excellence in teaching at Temple University and in 1994 she was selected "Teacher of the Year" in the state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association (PMTA). Her expertise in Spanish and Latin American Piano Music has won her innumerable invitations to perform and present lecture-recitals both nationally and internationally. Ms. Taylor has premiered several Hispanic works in Philadelphia, including the Concerto Cubano by Paul Csonka with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra and the Concertino for Piano, Strings and Cymbals by Carlos Surinach with the Pennsylvania Pro Musica Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Franklin Zimmerman and Rimas for voice and piano by Roberto Sierra. As a distinguished Latino artist she has been nominated for many awards and was recently selected by the Iberoamerican Foundation as one of six outstanding Hispanic Women in the City of Philadelphia for her contributions to the promotion of Hispanic Music. Ms. Taylor's biography is listed in the International Who's Who in Music and the International Who's Who Among Women. In 1978 she was awarded a Notable American plaque in recognition of past achievements and outstanding service to community, state and nation. "Virtuoso keyboard excitement. The pianist met all the challenges of the Rapsodia Sinfonica by Turina superbly and delivered a potent performance." - Bob Freund, The Hi-riser, Fort Lauderdale, FL
"A highly versatile and sensitive artist... equally at ease as a soloist, as an accompanist or as a chamber musician." - Robert Sherman, The New York Times, New York,
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