Taylor Ho Bynum

Taylor Ho Bynum has spent his career navigating the intersections between structure and improvisation—through musical composition, performance and interdisciplinary collaboration, and through teaching, writing, production and organizing. Bynum's expressionistic playing on cornet and his expansive vision as composer have garnered him critical attention on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and dozens more as a sideman. His varied endeavors include his Acoustic Bicycle Tours (where he travels to concerts solely by bike across thousands of miles) and his stewardship of Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation (which he served as executive director from 2010-2018, producing and performing on many major Braxton projects, including two operas and multiple festivals). Bynum has worked with other legendary figures such as Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, and Wadada Leo Smith and maintains current collaborative projects with artists like Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson and Tomeka Reid, among others. Bynum's writing has been published in the New Yorker, Point of Departure and Sound American, and he has served as a panelist, board member and consultant for leading arts organizations and individual artists. He began teaching at Dartmouth as Director of the Coast Jazz Orchestra at Dartmouth in 2017.