Darryl Taylor has sung in concert halls across the United States and Europe, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Royce Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Barcelona's Palau de la Mùsica. His numerous tours of Spain have garnered him particular praise. His recordings, Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams (Albany Records), and Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes (Naxos Records, American Classics Series) have received lavish acclaim. 2006 saw the release of three CDs, Poetry Preludes: Music of Richard Thompson and Fields of Wonder: Songs of Robert Owens, both on Videmus/Albany Records, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Complete Orchestral Works and Escénas Campestres Cubanas with the Grammy-nominated Hot Springs Festival Orchestra (Naxos Records, American Classics Series). It was also a year of transition for Taylor from tenor to countertenor.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Darryl Taylor holds degrees from the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan. He is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society. Dr. Taylor on the music faculty of the University of California, Irvine.