Stephen Taylor holds the Mrs John D. Rockefeller III Solo Oboe Chair with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and teaches at the Yale, Manhattan, and The Juilliard schools of music. He has more than 300 recordings under his belt, has been nominated for a GRAMMY, and was awarded a performer’s grant by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. Steve plays principal oboe with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and is in the New York Woodwind Quintet. He summers at popular festivals and, being obsessed with buoyancy, spends his free time on his old wooden boats in Maine.