Daniel appears on more than 90 recordings which include Bach Cantatas/Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner (for Deutsche Grammophone Archiv and SDG); Renaissance duets with Bowman /Actor Ralph Fiennes/TEM (BIS); Handel’s Rinaldo with Bartoli /AAM/Hogwood (Decca); Cantatas "Before Bach" with Collegium Vocale /Herrewege (Harmonia Mundi); Sakamoto’s pop-opera "Life" with the Dalai Lama and Salman Rushdie (Sony); Bach Cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan (BIS); a Bach recital with the Theatre of Early Music (Sony); Vivaldi Gloria with the Bethlehem Bach Choir/Funfgeld (Analekta); Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater (BIS); four recordings of Handel’s Messiah, these being with the Kammerchor Stuttgart (Carus), with the American Bach Soloists (Koch) and most recently a CD/DVD with Tafelmusik (Bravo Television) and a live recording with the New York Philharmonic. Daniel has recorded the CD/DVD of the Bach B minor Mass with the Ensemble Orchestrale Paris/Nelson (EMI Virgin) and also a CD with the Kammerchor Stuttgart/Bernius (Carus). Upcoming recordings include Handel’s Jephtha with the Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh (Deutsche Gramophone Archiv), Bach Solo Cantatas with Lamon/Tafelmusik (Analekta), Bach St. Matthew Passion with the Kammerchor Stuttgart/Bernius (Carus) and Handel Judas Maccabeus with Clarion/Fox (Telarc.

Daniel’s debut at Glyndebourne in Handel’s Theodora (recorded for Erato) followed on his operatic debut in Jonathan Miller’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda (EMI). He took the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo at the Edinburgh Festival. His North American operatic debut was in Handel’s Cesare at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Daniel receives invitations from an ever-widening circle of the world’s leading early and contemporary music ensembles, appearing in opera (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, San Francisco, Rome, Welsh National Opera, Canadian Opera, Opera North, Montreal Opera and Munich); oratorio (Gabrieli Consort, Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists, Bach Collegium Japan, Les Arts Florissants, Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, King’s Consort); symphonic works (Cleveland, St. Louis, Lisbon, Philadelphia, Tonhalle Zurich, Toronto, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Montreal); recital (Vienna Konzerthaus, Frick Collection, New York, Forbidden Concert Hall, Beijing, Lufthansa Baroque Festival and Wigmore Hall, London) and film (Podeswa’s Five Senses for Fineline - winner at Cannes and also of a Genie). Daniel Taylor is now recognized as "Canada’s star countertenor" and "Canada’s most prolific recording artist".

Highlights of past engagements include Handel’s Messiah with San Francisco Symphony/Christophers; Handel’s Rinaldo with the Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood (with Bartoli for Decca); Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the Cleveland Orchestra/McGegan; Messiah with the St. Louis Symphony/Christophers; Orff's Carmina Burana with the Toronto Symphony/Oundjan; Bach Christmas Oratorio with the National Arts Centre/Pinnock; Handel’s Rinaldo at the Munich Opera House/Bickett; Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Philadelphia Orchestra/Dutoit; Handel’s Saul with Bachakademie Stuttgart/ Rilling (for Hänssler Classics); Buxtehude Cantatas with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman (for Channel Classics); Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Taiwan National Symphony/Grossman (for Koch) and Schnittke’s Faust Cantata with the Rotterdam Philharmonic/Gergiev. Daniel also sang at a Pow-Wow of First Nations in Alberta and on Parliament Hill for Queen Elizabeth and the Prime Minister of Canada. He appeared on German Television for the Prime Minister of Germany, on Spanish Television for the Queen of Spain and in a recital for the King and Queen of Sweden. With the Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh , Daniel toured Europe in Purcell’s Odes, appeared in recital on Polish Television and toured Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; he also appeared in the Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Tonhalle Zurich Orchestra/McCreesh. With the Madrid National Orchestra/Goodwin, he sang in the Bach St. Matthew Passion on Spanish Television. With the Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner, Daniel appeared in Handel’s Israel in Egypt at the BBC Proms; returning to the BBC Proms in recital with the Berlin Akamus.

During the 2010 – 2011 season, new recordings were released : Handel Messiah with the Montreal Symphony/Nagano (for Sony), Bach St. John Passion with the Bethlehem Bach Choir/Funfgeld (Analekta). Daniel also appeared on the new soundtrack with the Cirque du Soleil (Universal) and on a pop album with Jonathan Reilly-Roe. Handel Messiah performances include Dallas Symphony/Rilling, Tafelmusik, the Montreal Symphony/Nagano and a return to the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque/McGegan.

Highlights of 2011-2012 include the Bach B minor Mass in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the Philharmonia/McGegan, Bach St. Matthew Passion (recording for Carus) with the Kammerchor Stuttgart/Bernius, Orff Carmina Burana with National Arts Centre Orchestra /Matheus, Handel's Messiah with the Houston Symphony/Halls, Handel&Haydn Society Boston/Christophers and the Toronto Symphony/McGegan, recital appearances across the United States culminating in his return to New York's Carnegie Hall and an appearance in Handel's Opera Rinaldo at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. This season sees the worldwide release of Daniel's new recital disc "Come Again, Sweet Love" on SONY.

Daniel is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto, Professor of Voice at the University of Ottawa and an Adjunct Professor at McGill University. Daniel is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Choir and Orchestra of the Theatre of Early Music. Daniel is also Artistic Director of the International Festival of Sacred Music Quebec. The Theatre of Early Music performs more than 30 concerts every year in concert halls all over the world.

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Founded by Artistic Director and Conductor Daniel Taylor, the Choir and Orchestra of the Theatre of Early Music (TEM) are sought-after interpreters of magnificent yet neglected choral and instrumental repertoire from four centuries. Their appearances include stunning a cappella programmes, with practices and aesthetics of former ages informing thought-provoking, passionate and committed reconstructions of music for historical events and major works from the oratorio tradition. With Daniel Taylor, the Choir and Orchestra of the TEM are new visitors to the world's most renowned concert halls and festivals and are building an exciting discography in partnership with Sony Classical Masterworks.

The best-selling debut disc on the Sony label entitled The Voice of Bach was praised in Gramophone Magazine as “serious music-making of the highest order”. The disc received five stars from both BBC Music Magazine and Classic Music CD, was featured on BBC’s “Desert Island Discs” and received acclaim worldwide including reviews from the Times (London), the Globe and Mail (Toronto), the New York Times, the Guardian (London) and La Scena Musicale (Montreal). In the fall of 2011, the new disc "Come Again Sweet Love" - featuring music around the time of Shakespeare - was released worldwide.

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Deborah York, lyric-coloratura soprano has established a reputation as one of the finest singers of her generation. Especially renowned for her performances of 17th and 18th century repertoire she is as equally at home in the music of the northern baroque masters as in Italian and her native English.

Born in Sheffield, Deborah graduated from Manchester University with a first class honours degree and went on to study with Laura Sarti and Janice Chapman in London. She now lives in Berlin and works with vocal coach Annette Goeres. Alongside a busy performing schedule Deborah teaches at her studio in Berlin as well as giving masterclasses. She is Artistic Director for the Austria Barock Akademie in Gmunden.

On the operatic stage she is appreciated for her musical integrity and for portraying a variety of characters with disarming honesty. Deborah has performed in opera houses throughout the world including Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Sydney Opera House, Semperoper Dresden, Amsterdam, and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. She has been a regular guest artist at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, creating the roles of L’Amour in Gluck’s Orphee, Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and singing Oberto in Handel’s Alcina and Almirena in Rinaldo, recorded live for DVD. She created the role of Mirror in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong for Glyndebourne Opera and was awarded a Grammy for her recording of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in the role of Anne Truelove, recorded for Deutsche Grammophone with the London Symphony Orchestra and John Eliot Gardiner.

Deborah has toured extensively in concert with Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale and Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra performing works of J.S.Bach. As a renowned Handelian she has sung with conductors such as Markus Creed, Ottavio Dantone, Marc Minkowski, Christophe Rousset, Paul McCreesh and Trevor Pinnock, as well as performing and recording works by Vivaldi and Scarlatti with Rinaldo Alessandrini, The King’s Consort and Alessandro de Marchi.

Deborah regularly gives solo chamber recitals with ensembles such as Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Stagione Frankfurt. With her own group the amritaensemble she performs baroque cantatas with single strings. Recent concerts were enthusiastically received at the Aldeburgh Festival and Radialsystem in Berlin. Forthcoming engagements include a festive Christmas programme with trumpeter Ute Hartwich in the Philharmonie, Luxemburg.

Deborah’s extensive discography includes cantatas by J.S.Bach with Philippe Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi and with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Recent releases include a live recording from the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich of Handel’s Alcina (Oberto) with Ivor Bolton, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Sasha Waltz dance company on DVD and a disc of duets with mezzo soprano Lydia Vierlinger, Jörg Zwicker and Capella Leopoldina for Capriccio.