Taylor (given name)
Taylor is a given name mainly in use in English- speaking countries, including England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The name Taylor has been well used for characters on American and now some Australian soap operas.
Variants include Tayla and Taylah; both these variants are feminine.
Anne Gallet
Anne Gallet is a Swiss harpsichordist and musicologist.
Gallet was born in Geneva.
At the age of 20 she won the first prize for virtuosity at the Conservatoire de Genève in the class of Isabelle Nef.
Subsequently, she studied at the Wiener Musikakademie( Vienna), and further, under Gustav Leonhardt.
A laureate of the" International Competition Musica Antiqua Bruges" in 1965, she went on to play at European and American festivals, solo, and accompanying Jordi Savall, Hopkinson Smith, Sigiswald Kuijken, and Philippe Huttenlocher.
She obtained a master's degree in musicology at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also taught harpsichord for two years.
In reviewing the 2000 recording" The Baroque Harpsichord" to which Gallet contributed," Gramophone" magazine praised" the delicacy of her touch".
As of 2000, she is a teacher at the Conservatoire de Genève and the Centre de Musique Ancienne Geneve.
Peter Dijkstra
Peter Dijkstra( born 11 June 1978) is a Dutch conductor, especially of choirs and vocal ensembles.
Born in Roden, Drenthe, Dijkstra sang in his youth in Jongenskoor Roder, a boys' choir, which his father, Bouwe Dijkstra, founded in 1985.
He sang the Cantatas of J. S. Bach with the likes of Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken and Max van Egmond in Amsterdam.
Later he studied singing and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Marcus Creed, and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Jorma Panula.
He also attended master classes with Eric Ericson and Tõnu Kaljuste.
He led the ensemble The Gents.
Dijkstra has been guest conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Choir and artistic director of the of Munich from September 2005.
In 2007 he was appointed chief conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir.
He has collaborated with major European vocal ensembles and appeared as an orchestral conductor.
Taylah Davies
Taylah Davies( born 3 October 1994 in Wollongong, Australia) is an Australian netballer.
Primarily a wing attack and centre player, Davies was a member of the NSW Swifts in the ANZ Championship and the Giants in the Suncorp Super League.
Barthold Kuijken
Barthold Kuijken( born 8 March 1949, Dilbeek) is a Belgian flautist and recorder player, known for playing baroque music on historical instruments and particularly known for pioneering this manner of performance with his brothers, cellist and viol player Wieland Kuijken and violinist Sigiswald Kuijken and the harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt.
He studied the modern flute at the Bruges Conservatory and the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.
For playing early music he originally turned to the recorder.
Research on authentic instruments, frequent collaboration with various flute and recorder makers, and assiduous study of sources of the 17th and 18th centuries helped him to specialize in the performance on original instruments.
For many years he played in the baroque orchestras Collegium Aureum and La Petite Bande.
He plays chamber music concerts all over the world, extending his repertoire to early 19th- century music and has recorded extensively.
He teaches baroque flute at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.
In 2007 he obtained as first musician in Belgium the doctorate in arts(" Doctor in de Kunsten") at the VUB( Free University of Brussels); title of the dissertation( essay):" The Notation is not the Music – Reflections on more than 40 years intensive practice of Early Music."
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken( born 16 February 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on period and original instruments.
Jin Kim (violinist)
Jin Kim is a South Korean Baroque violinist.
A native of Seoul, she studied in Seoul National University's Department of Music, and then came to the United States to study at the University of Michigan under Ruggiero Ricci.
She learned Baroque violin from Sigiswald Kuijken, a Belgian violinist and conductor noted for authentic instruments, and has performed in Europe, the United States and Japan.
Currently, she devotes herself to the promotion of early music in South Korea.
She has worked with period instrument ensemble La Petite Bande.
As a founder, she has been leading Musica Glorifica since 2002.
Barthold Kuijken
Barthold Kuijken( born 8 March 1949, Dilbeek) is a Belgian flautist and recorder player, known for playing baroque music on historical instruments and particularly known for pioneering this manner of performance with his brothers, cellist and viol player Wieland Kuijken and violinist Sigiswald Kuijken and the harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt.
He studied the modern flute at the Bruges Conservatory and the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.
For playing early music he originally turned to the recorder.
Research on authentic instruments, frequent collaboration with various flute and recorder makers, and assiduous study of sources of the 17th and 18th centuries helped him to specialize in the performance on original instruments.
For many years he played in the baroque orchestras Collegium Aureum and La Petite Bande.
He plays chamber music concerts all over the world, extending his repertoire to early 19th- century music and has recorded extensively.
He teaches baroque flute at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.
In 2007 he obtained as first musician in Belgium the doctorate in arts(" Doctor in de Kunsten") at the VUB( Free University of Brussels); title of the dissertation( essay):" The Notation is not the Music – Reflections on more than 40 years intensive practice of Early Music."
Dugès
Several people share the surname Dugès:

Question: Do Sigiswald Kuijken and Taylah Davies share the same nationality?
Answer: no