Caroline Taylor is a Professor of Music at Ouachita Baptist University. Active as both a performer and clinician, Dr. Taylor has premiered works for saxophone throughout the United States and Europe. Her recent performances include the 2018 World Saxophone Congress held in Zagreb, Croatia and the 2018 College Music Society National Conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
As a founding member of the Arkansas Saxophone Quartet, she has extensively performed all styles of chamber music ranging from transcriptions to avant-garde contemporary music. Dr. Taylor has enjoyed frequent invitations to perform at the World Saxophone Congress, numerous conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance, the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, the College Music Society and the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts & Humanities in Waikiki Beach. Her debut CD recording The LYNX Duo: Music for Saxophone & Percussion was released through Mark Custom Recordings. Her recording of "Snoqualmie Passages" by Patrick Houlihan is included on the CD Ascend from the Society of Composers and Navona Records. Dr. Taylor earned both a Master of Music in Woodwinds Performance and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance from the University of Georgia. Dr. Taylor is an E. Rousseau Artist and a Performing Artist for the Yamaha Corporation of America.
