Bill Taylor and Friends

This concert features Bill Taylor playing along with Gerold Mohn, clarinet and bassoon, Tari Roosa, flute and piccolo, Terry Keevil, oboe and English Horn, French horn player Stewart Edelstein and singer Jaye Alison Moscariello.  We will perform several of Bill’s pieces which are classically-inspired with hints of jazz and show tunes; these are trios, duos, solos, and quartets; and a few songs.  Spanish Stairs by Paul McCandless and two 20th century classical pieces, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Four Waltzes and Camille Saint-Saens’ Tarantella, will fill out the program.

Partial list of pieces aside from those above:

Ode to Ludwig
Civil Unrest
Hiding From the Law
Saratoga Salsa
Nature’s Dream
Mendocino Coast Storm
Belugas
Of The Woods
Seattle Cascade/Shutters Corners
Sueno Con Bosque Nublado (not sure how to put ~ over the n in Sueno)
Release
Every Time We Meet (by Priscilla Rowe)

About Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor is a composer, pianist, and market gardener/farmer and radio show cohost living in Sandisfield, MA since 2020.  Several of his works were performed in March 2019 by the Ukiah Symphony (CA).  His two albums (Nature’s Dream, 2018 and Of This Earth, 2011) include solo and ensemble pieces with Paul McCandless (grammy winning reed player with Oregon and Paul Winter Consort), jazz flautist George Husaruk, singer Jaye Alison Moscariello, violinist and concertmaster of Ukiah Symphony Margie Rice, and bassist Yanahay Hooper.  He played in the Soul Purpose Band from 2012 to 2020, was church pianist and organist from 2004 to 2020 in northern California and from 2022 to present in West Stockbridge, MA.  His farming and environmental awareness and involvement inform his compositions.  He studied composition at Cornish School and with composer Ken Benshoof, piano with his father Arnold Taylor, Harriet Shirvan in Boston, and jazz pianist Jerry Gray in Seattle.  His music was featured in several films produced by Jaye Alison Moscariello.  In June 2023 and again in 2024 he was a composer at the Mostly Modern Festival where his chamber pieces Regenerate, Heal, Cool, Normalizing Evil and others were performed.  He is working on a third album.

More info on Bill and his music at touchthearthmusic.com

Jaye Alison Moscariello sang on Bill’s two albums and at numerous concerts with him, and trained with Rosa D’Acri.

Gerold Mohn, Tari Roosa, and Stewart Edelstein are members of the Stockbridge Sinfonia and chamber ensembles in the area.

Stewart Edelstein (French horn), a resident of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (Preparatory Department), where he majored in French horn and minored in piano. He continued his French horn studies at Oberlin College, where he was an English major. After graduating from Cornell Law School, he formed a woodwind quintet, Prevailing Winds, which concertized in Connecticut for over thirty years. When he retired to Connecticut, he was a founding member of another woodwind quintet, Berkshire Winds, and has been a member of Stockbridge Sinfonia. He also performs with the Lenox High School Band — no students at that high school play the French horn!

Terry Keevil (oboe, English Horn) has been a member of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and Choir of Sacred Music, and performed with Lazar Gosman’s Tchaikovsky Orchestra as well as the Bach Aria Group.

For over thirty years he was a member of the chamber group, North Shore Pro Musica.  Terry was also part of the Constellation Trio with Linda Wetherill, flute and Steve Salerno, guitar.  Terry has performed and recorded with cellist David Darling and released a CD of original duduk music titled “Duduk Creations”.  He received a DMA in oboe performance from SUNY/Stony Brook where he studied with Steve Taylor, and an MM from SUNYSB where he studied with Ronald Roseman.  As an undergraduate, he attended Amherst College for two years and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied with Ronald Roseman.  Terry and his wife, Sarah, moved to West Stockbridge from Long Island in the Summer of 2023.

Gerold Mohn (Clarinet and Bassoon) grew up in Leverkusen, Germany and recently retired from a career as a scientist in Biopharmaceutical Research and Development. He moved to North Carolina in 1995 as part of an international assignment for a large pharmaceutical company. Gerold developed his passion for music when he received his first clarinet at the age of 10 and was introduced to his teacher Hans Kämmerling who also taught him piano and later became a lifelong friend, mentor and chamber music partner.

Throughout his busy professional life, Gerold continued to study clarinet and bassoon and performed with the Sinfonieorchester Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, the North Carolina Wind Orchestra, the Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra and was a founding member of the Triangle Wind Ensemble. Gerold is an active chamber musician and he met his wife Cathy playing in a woodwind quintet when they were living in North Carolina. They moved to the Berkshires in 2017 and live in West Stockbridge. Currently Gerold performs regularly with the Berkshire Winds, the Eagles Band and the Stockbridge Sinfonia.

Tari Wheeler Roosa (Flute, Piccolo) is an active performer and teacher in Berkshire County. She currently teaches flute and recorder at the Berkshire Music School and formerly taught the early childhood classes at the school and with the Community Partnership for Children.  She performs regularly with the Eagles Community Band and is a founding member of The Jovia Trio (flute, violin, piano ensemble).   Tari received a Masters degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Online ticket sales end at 3:30 pm but there is still room for walk-ins – please come!