He knows all the tunes, he knows all the licks....He’s a great player… Really easy to sit down and play with him… This guy’s done his homework.
-Sam Miltich
Geoffrey Paul Taylor is a multi-genre violinist, composer, recording artist, and educator performing professionally since 2011. As a performing artist Geoffrey collaborates with Sam Miltich and the Clearwater Hot Club and leads the swing septet Night Blooming Jasmine, which has been featured at the Big Sky Django Jazz Festival and the Northwest Folklife Festival. Other performing projects include The Recession Special, the Good Old Fashioned, the Pack Strings and many more.
Geoffrey performed regularly with the Helena Symphony Orchestra from 2012-2022 and has performed with the Billings Symphony Orchestra, Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, Glacier Symphony Orchestra, Missoula Symphony Orchestra, Steamboat Springs Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Pines.
As a composer, Geoffrey was the recipient of a Montana Arts Council grant to complete his 12 Fantasias for 5 String Fiddle and a Region 2 Arts Council Grant (MN) to compose the string arrangements for his ensemble, Augmeanted.
Taylor’s chincello…and violins sound uncannily like a small chamber group. For those among us who love strings and classically-influenced projects, this album is a must!
-Dino DiMuro, Pitch Perfect
As a recording artist, Geoffrey’s fiddle on Dusty the Kid’s album Days of Love and Rage has been called “a righteous debut album” with a “soulful…tender fiddle.” His work on Augmeanted’s Life, Twice, was chosen as a Top Album for 2022 by Pitch Perfect, noting his luscious strings arrangements and timeless, globally-influenced motifs.
Geoffrey is an active teaching artist with a private studio for violin, viola, and mandolin. He teaches general music for the Center for Music by People with Disabilities and has taught music workshops for the Montana Suzuki Institute, Center for Music by People with Disabilities, Arts Without Boundaries, Billings Public School District, Headwaters School of Music & Arts, and the Zootown Arts Community Center.
When he's not performing, teaching, composing or recording, Geoffrey can be found offering free fiddle lessons at the farmer’s markets, organizing acoustic jams at local breweries, and inspiring people to pick up an instrument while playing for passersby on a street corner.