Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor is a specialist in the performance of ancient harp music from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and is one of the very few musicians exploring these repertoires on medieval gut-strung harps, wire-strung clarsachs, and Renaissance harps with buzzing bray pins. He has been residing in Scotland for many years, where he teaches and performs with the Highland early music group Coronach and the duo The Art of Musick.

A former president of the International Historical Harp Society, he also collaborates with the Belgian late-medieval ensemble Quadrivium and accompanies the Scottish female vocal quartet Canty. Bill has recorded several CDs with Canty, featuring music by Hildegard of Bingen and compositions for the feast day of St. Brigit of Ireland.

Bill teaches community music classes through Fèis Rois and is a guest lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. As a teacher of historical harps, he is frequently invited to lead workshops in the UK, Europe, and the USA, including regular appearances at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival.