Mark Taylor

Mark A. Taylor is an award-winning music educator and composer. He teaches orchestra at Centreville High School in Fairfax County, VA, conducts with The Capitol Symphony Youth Orchestras, serves as an adjudicator and clinician, and composes for all levels and genres.  In addition to teaching and writing, Dr. Taylor plays cello under the direction of his father, F. Wayne Taylor, in the Friends & Family Chamber Orchestra. 

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He holds a BM from George Mason University, an MME from Shenandoah Conservatory, and a DMA in Composition from George Mason University where he studied under Dr. Glenn Smith. When he is not making music, Dr. Taylor enjoys spending time with his family and riding his bike wherever the roads might take him. While he once took an unsupported bike trip from Virginia to Alabama to raise scholarship money for his students, most trips encompass a much smaller radius. Mark, his wife Holly, daughter Jacqueline, and son Curtis reside in Centreville, Virginia.