MM in sacred music, conducting, and voice performance, East Carolina University; BA in Music Education, Bennett College for Women.  Miss Taylor is currently working as the Access Services Supervisor for the Music Library at East Carolina University, adjunct voice faculty member at Bennett College in Greensboro, NC and director of the East Carolina University Gospel Choir, and Director of Music at Immanuel Baptist Church.   She is also enrolled in the Master of Divinity degree at Shaw University. 

During her matriculation at ECU, Miss Taylor served as assistant conductor of the University Chorale and the voice coach for the Gospel Choir.  She was a semi-finalist in the graduate division of the American Choral Directors Association National Conducting Competition at the national convention in New York, a recipient of the Lynn Bridges Memorial Award scholarship, winner of the East Carolina University Concerto Competition, recipient of the Martha Strawn Iley Church Music Scholarship in the area of voice, the 2002 first place winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing State Competition, winner of the LINKS Performance Scholarship, and a recipient of the Michael Jackson Performance Scholarship. 

Miss Taylor is a well sought after performer and clinician.  She has been a featured soloist on the Hampton University Ministers’ Conference and Choir Directors’/Organist Guild Recital Series, performed with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and serves annually on the faculty of the Church Music Summit in Charlotte, NC. Her voice teachers include Louise Toppin and Valerie Johnson.  She is currently Choir Director and Assistant Professor of Music, Shaw University, Executive Director of Andante Center for the Performing Arts and formerly Instructor of Music at Bennett College.