Craig Taborn
piano
Winner of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, Craig Taborn is a Brooklyn-based pianist and electronic musician who has been performing in the jazz, improvisational, and creative music scenes for over twenty-five years, composing for and performing jazz, new music, electronic, rock, noise, and avant-garde. He has played and recorded with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Lester Bowie, Dave Holland, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Evan Parker, Steve Coleman, David Torn, Chris Potter, William Parker, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis, Nicole Mitchell, Susie Ibarra, Ikue Mori, Carl Craig, Dave Douglas, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dan Weiss, Chris Lightcap, Gerald Cleaver, and Rudresh Mahanthappa, among others.
Taborn’s current projects include solo piano performances (Avenging Angel), the Craig Taborn Trio, the electronic project Junk Magic, the Daylight Ghosts Quartet, Heroic Enthusiasts—a piano/drums/electronics duo with Dave King—and a trio with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith. He also performs in piano duo collaborations with Vijay Iyer (The Transitory Poems), Kris Davis (Octopus), and Cory Smythe. He is a member of the instrumental electronic art-pop group Golden Valley is Now and frequently performs on solo electronics. His conceptual work 60 x Sixty is available at 60xSixty.com.