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JonNichi Taylor

Piano

JonNichimyoun Taylor, AKA Jonnichi Sun Tiger 13, is a composer, pianist, teacher, music producer and creator of Sun Tiger West Coast Productions of Los Angeles, California. Throughout his professional life, he has been touched and inspired by legends from Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones to Nadia Boulanger and Leonard Bernstein, who were his teachers and mentors.

He rebirth into physical life on July, 1950. It was at the young age of 10 that he became interested in music, especially the piano where he, like so many young adults in his neighborhood, decided to take up private lessons in piano and organ.

He has always shown an admiration for the music and arts, composing in particular. After going through four years of college at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee to receive his degree(s) in music education and ethnic-musicology, Jon Nichimyoun decided to embark upon a career in composing.

His main interest here was to focus on Broadway musicals, film scoring and orchestrations. For more than two decades, (1976-1999), he lived in Europe, where he met his beloved teacher/professor Madamoiselle Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. He re-located a few years later to the Austrian capital ,Vienna, where he made several performances for cultural affairs, ambassadors residences, private salon concerts and musical theater.

He returned to the United States in 1999 and now presently resides in Los Angeles, California with his family. Apart from his occupied time at his "SunTiger Studio", Mr.JonNichimyoun Taylor loves spending time with his family and friends as occasionally he tours around the world performing the piano on tremendous European Cruises and ships that sail the ocean seas - world renowned.