Composer, vocalist and producer M Ryan Taylor is the author of two operas, dozens of choral works, art songs, song cycles, as well as works for brass, strings and other chamber ensembles. His first opera, Abinadi, was premiered, filmed and broadcast by Brigham Young University in 2003. Taylor self-produced, directed and performed in his second opera, The Other Wise Man : a chamber opera in one act, based on the story by Henry Van Dyke, in 2006-7. He is currently working on his third opera, based on George MacDonald’s fairy tale, The Giant’s Heart. In April of 2011, Taylor teamed with The American Fork Arts Council Press to set poems by 10 living Utah-based poets; the result was a set of songs entitled, 3 Floors to the Grass. Other notable song cycle premieres include the Moon Songs on poems of Vachel Lindsay (winner of the Vera Hinckley Mayhew Composition Contest) by soprano Heather . . . Read the full bio at http://mryantaylor.com