Geoffrey Paul Taylor is a multi-genre violinist, recording artist, composer, and educator who is passionate about cultivating performance and listening opportunities for live music in Western Montana. He plays and composes in classical, old time, bluegrass, western swing and jazz fiddle traditions. Geoffrey has taught extensively in Montana schools and has organized local concerts with world-class musicians, including Tim Kliphuis, Alfonso Ponticelli, the Carlo Aonzo Trio and Gaelynn Lea. 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.
Geoffrey is a founding member of Night Blooming Jasmine, Western Montana’s premier Hot Club Swing sextet since 2016. NBJ has been featured at the Big Sky Gypsy Jazz Festival and the Northwest Folklife Festival. Geoffrey is full-time fiddler for The Recession Special, whose 2022 debut album “Days of Love and Rage” has been called “a righteous debut album” with “soulful…tender fiddle”. Other projects include Wailing Aaron Jennings and his Western Wingnuts, Augmeanted and the Good Old Fashioned string band. He has been performing regularly with the Helena Symphony Orchestra since 2012 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.
Geoffrey is an active teaching artist with a private studio for violin, viola, and mandolin lessons. He teaches general music at the Rattlesnake Nature School and has taught music workshops for the Montana Suzuki Institute, Center for Music by People with Disabilities, the Salvation Army, Arts Without Boundaries, Billings Public School District, and the Zootown Arts Community Center.
Geoffrey is a founding member of Night Blooming Jasmine, Western Montana’s premier Hot Club Swing sextet since 2016. NBJ has been featured at the Big Sky Gypsy Jazz Festival and the Northwest Folklife Festival. Geoffrey is full-time fiddler for The Recession Special, whose 2022 debut album “Days of Love and Rage” has been called “a righteous debut album” with “soulful…tender fiddle”. Other projects include Wailing Aaron Jennings and his Western Wingnuts, Augmeanted and the Good Old Fashioned string band. He has been performing regularly with the Helena Symphony Orchestra since 2012 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.
Geoffrey is an active teaching artist with a private studio for violin, viola, and mandolin lessons. He teaches general music at the Rattlesnake Nature School and has taught music workshops for the Montana Suzuki Institute, Center for Music by People with Disabilities, the Salvation Army, Arts Without Boundaries, Billings Public School District, and the Zootown Arts Community Center.