Armistead Booker 6/20/25 Armistead Booker 6/20/25

Summer Solstice Celebration

Matthew Evan Taylor’s Afropneuma at sunrise and Erik Hall’s reimagining of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians.

Armistead Booker 2/14/23 Armistead Booker 2/14/23

Life Returns: Digital Premiere

Join us for the digital premiere of Life Returns, our March 2022 concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2/17/22 2/17/22

Life Returns

March 24, 2022

An evening-length composition at The Met drawing on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.

3/31/21 3/31/21

The Journey to Life Returns

Witness a yearlong time-lapse musical performance of an original work by composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor.

3/19/21 3/19/21

Matthew Evan Taylor: Postcards to the Met

March 2021—March 2022

The Metropolitan Museum of Art / MetLiveArts and Metropolis Ensemble present a monthly video series featuring composer and performer Matthew Evan Taylor.

2/24/21 2/24/21

Neon Jazz: The Unheard Mixtape 1: Interview with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor

“Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor.”

12/3/20 12/3/20

I Care If You Listen: The Unheard Mixtape 1: Follow to the End Celebrates Experimentation and Black Expressive Culture

Matthew Evan Taylor’s The Unheard Mixtapes has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.

11/27/20 11/27/20

The Unheard Playlist

Composer and performer Mattew Evan Taylor curates a playlist as an audio love letter to all the people that dared to hear differently and taught him to do the same.