Martin Bernstein & Justin Taylor

At the age of twenty-three, the Franco-American musician Justin Taylor won First Prize in 2015 at the prestigious International Musica Antiqua Harpsichord Competition in Bruges. He also won the Audience Prize, the Alpha Prize, and the EUBO Developing Trust Prize awarded to the most promising young European musician. He was nominated as one of the three finalists in the Instrumental Soloist Revelations category in the 2017 Victoires de la Musique. That same year, the Professional Critics Association awarded him the Musical Revelation of the Year Prize. His first disc, on Alpha in 2016, was La Famille Forqueray: Portrait(s). It received the awards Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Choc de l’année from the magazine Classica, and Grand Prix from the Charles Cros Academy. He recorded on pianoforte Mozart’s Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K 453, with Le Concert de la Loge; the disc was released in 2017 on Aparté. Justin has also recorded a double disc of Bach works for Deutsche Gramophone for the BACH 333 integral. His second disc, Continuum, devoted to Scarlatti and Ligeti, appeared in 2018. With his ensemble, The Consort, he won the First Prize in 2017 at the Loire Valley International Early Music Competition. In residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation, the young musicians of The Consort interpret varied repertory: Baroque trio sonatas, vocal music with the mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, and classical chamber music with the fortepiano. He is sponsored by the Safran Foundation.