Allison Taylor

Allie Taylor is a Graduate student at the University of Michigan, pursuing her master's degrees in Violin Performance, Improvisation, and Chamber Music. She will also receive a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Allie is a 3-time DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award winner (in the Jazz Vocal and Pop/Rock/Blues categories), a 2-time semifinalist in the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative Competition, the first-place winner of the Allegro Society Instrumental Scholarship Competition, and has performed internationally, from London to India (where she studied Carnatic violin).