Paul Taylor, (Ph.D., The Catholic University of America; M.M., Northwestern University; B.M., West Virginia University), associate professor, former assistant dean, member of the music theory faculty, and faculty adviser for the doctoral program in orchestral instruments. Studied trumpet with Roger Sherman, Adolph Herseth and Adel Sanchez; composition with Thomas Canning; and music theory with G. Thaddeus Jones. Former member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.