The title, pneuma, is an ancient Greek word for “breath,” and the work purposefully rejects the traditional standards that we use to measure success.

For Homegoings: Live, Matthew Evan Taylor built a one-man orchestra before our eyes, using looping pedals and wind instruments, like saxophones and flutes. For our deep listen, we’ll listen to an edited version of Matthew’s creation.

Listen on-demand to Metropolis artists on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase hosted by Emi Ferguson, including excerpts from Matthew Evan Taylor's Life Returns.

“Life Returns is a monumental work that melds free improvisation and through composition to celebrate resilience and triumph in the face of despair."

Matthew Evan Taylor is a music composer, improviser, and performer from Vermont who has not let the feelings of being unwelcome stop him from participating, teaching, and leading in the world of classical music.

Emi Ferguson: Tonight, you’ll hear a roster of recent fellows performing powerful music by Richard Strauss, Earl Kim, Matthew Evan Taylor, and Carl Fruhling.

Matthew Evan Taylor creates music for layers of saxophone, Lea Bertucci uses an empty grain silo for layers of processed alto sax, and Viet Cuong writes glides and slides in a two-part work for PRISM Sax Quartet.

“Middlebury College professor and composer Matthew Evan Taylor's "Life Returns" celebrates the coming of Springtime, and will have its digital premiere on February 14th.”

“Resilience has been central to many of the projects supported by Ms. Arsht, including Life Returns , which reflected on the resilience of individuals in the face of unprecedented adversity.”

She sang while accompanying herself on a spinet piano, both in her home in Birmingham, Ala., and at her local church, the Saint Paul Smithfield AME Church, where she often took her grandson.

It began with a sound from a woodwind instrument (Matthew Evan Taylor) that reminded me of a human groan or a moan.

Saxophone player Matthew Evan Taylor performs May 14, 2022 at the Winooski Methodist Church as part of the Waking Windows festival.

MetLiveArts and the Metropolis Ensemble commissioned Life Returns, an evening-length composition from composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor.

A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music.

Witness a yearlong time-lapse musical performance of an original work by composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor.

“Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor.”

“Questioning My Shadow” from Unheard Mixtape 4: Isolation Blues.

Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green. We sample composer/saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor's album "Say Their Names," a musical response to the 2020 protests against police brutality.

“Matthew has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.”

Called "All That Jazz: Portrait of Matthew Evan Taylor," this mural honors the titular saxophonist, composer and music professor at Middlebury College.

We explore his piece "Lamentation for the Fallen" from the Say Their Names album: a musical reactions to 7 days of unrest.

What began as an attempt by Matthew Evan Taylor to collaborate with fellow musicians during the isolation of the pandemic ended up being a yearlong project that culminated in an evening performance at the Met.

Composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor's Life Returns is an evening-length composition that draws on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.

When the formally clad musicians in a string quartet raise their instruments, pose together in utter silence, and then start pounding out West African drumming rhythms, literally using the bodies of their instruments as percussion, you know you’re in for something different.

Episode 75 of ADJ•ective New Music's podcast, Lexical Tones. Robert McClure interviews composer Matthew Evan Taylor.

I’ve really enjoyed experiencing the difference between Creston’s early style, in which he is fitting his various influences together, and his mature style, which is elegant and assured.

Miami-based composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor’s career has formed an impressive arc.

“Elemental Culture” brought them to back to the basics: how to create works of art that have a tangible impact on the community and give back just as much as they take.

Matthew Evan Taylor, the first interviewee, is a composer whose work is taking a radical leap forward—into ballet and marionettes—thanks in part to the support of Here & Now.