Amy Taylor is widely regarded for her artistry on both flute and piccolo and has built a multifaceted career as an orchestral performer, chamber musician, soloist, and educator. Over the course of her professional life she has held significant orchestral posts, including Principal Piccolo of the San Diego Symphony and seven seasons as Second Flute with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She also held positions with the Milwaukee Symphony and Honolulu Symphony Orchestras. During the 2023-24 season, Taylor was the Acting Piccolo of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has also appeared as Guest Principal Flute with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Guest Piccolo with the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra.
Taylor is in frequent demand as a guest musician with the country’s leading orchestras. She has performed extensively with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, touring to Carnegie Hall and on the ensemble’s tours to Asia. She has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Nashville Symphony Orchestras on both flute and piccolo. As a recording artist, Taylor was the featured piccoloist on the recently released, Detroit Symphony Orchestra recording of Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony and has also recorded with the Chicago Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras.
Outside the orchestral sphere, Taylor’s collaborations include a notable solo appearance with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Chicago’s Grant Park. She was also the first place winner of the National Flute Association’s Orchestral Excerpts Competition and the Oklahoma Young Artist Competition. In the festival setting, Taylor has appeared at the Sitka Summer Music Festival, St. Barth Music Festival, Arizona
Music Festival, Sun Valley Music Festival, Chautauqua Symphony, Bellingham Music Festival, among others.
A passionate educator, Taylor currently serves on the flute faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and as Piccolo Instructor at the University of North Texas, where her work as a piccolo specialist informs both studio instruction and masterclasses. She also teaches at the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy, where she works with young artists from around the world.
Taylor is a Yamaha Artist, playing on a handmade C-foot, silver flute.
Originally from the Dallas area, Taylor earned her BM from the University of North Texas and her MM from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include Walfrid Kujala and Terri Sundberg.