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Taylor, Nestor

Nestor Taylor was born to a very prominent Greek family, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Athens Conservatory with George Diamantis and composer, Menelaos Pallantios.

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Eleni : A Lyric Opera in Two Acts / Nestor Taylor; libretto by Fergus Currie

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: zang GK KK 2fl(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 4tpt 3trb tb-cb timp 3perc hp str

Archetypi : for orchestra / Paolo Fradiani

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt timp str

Phases : for four soundtracks and orchestra / visualized by Tolis Panagopoulos, Ton Bruynèl

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest; Orkest met elektronica
Bezetting: 2332 4331 timp perc pf str tape

... Qui se répète : pour orchestre, opus 953, 1998 / Jan van Dijk

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3233 sax-a 3331 3perc hp str

compositie

Pandemonium : Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra / Nestor Taylor

Toelichting:
Pandemonium – Πανδαιμόνιο: wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar. This is the dictionary’s definition for this noun. More importantly perhaps, ‘pandemonium’ tells you it’s alright to be wild, to be crazy, to get out there and tear up the world. Have a course of action? Disrupt it. Randomly decide that purple and neon green are perfectly complimentary colors? Wear them!
A similarly open-ended esthetic approach was adopted when writing my Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra under the same title. Pandemonium presents a fusion of conflicting styles, embracing different historical periods that curiously enough, are able to coexist in a new, more pluralistic time-order, with no boundaries. Formally, there is very little repetition allowing music ideas to be in a state of constant flux, proliferating and reorganizing themselves in unexpected ways. Pandemonium is dedicated with gratitude to Myron Michailidis and the Erfurt Philharmonic orchestra.
Nestor Taylor 18.02.2020