Daniel John Taylor OC (born November 1969), is a Canadian countertenor, conductor and early music specialist.
His most recent 2024 recording of the UK composer Cecilia Harper's "My love gave me an apple" had an audience of more than 5 million listeners.
Taylor has performed with: Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, San Francisco, Rome, Welsh National Opera, Canadian Opera, Opera North and Munich, Gabrieli Consort, Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Les Arts Florissants, Academy of Ancient Music), and he regularly joins forces with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Philharmonia Baroque, the Bach Collegium Japan, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music, Fretwork and the King's Consort.
He is artistic director, founder and conductor of the Trinity Consort and the Theatre of Early Music, professional choirs and period instrument ensembles based in Canada.
He has worked with John Nelson/Ensemble Orchestral Paris for the CD/DVD of Bach Mass in B minor at Notre Dame in Paris and has also recorded the Bach "Mass in B minor" with the Kammerchor Stuttgart, and in the Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude.