Baker Artist Portfolios

Baltimore based pianist and award-winning composer. He and his ensembles have performed at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center, and many festivals and venues from San Francisco to New York. He was selected to be part of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center as well as residencies at The Banff Centre, Millay Arts and the Avaloch Music Institute. Alan has received over 10 grants from the Maryland State Arts Council in jazz composition, jazz performance and world music as well as the Chamber Music of America’s prestigious New Jazz Works multi-year commission and The MAP Fund for 2022-24. Arrangements and performances of his music have been featured on NBC’s Parenthood, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and JazzSet, as well as the Stephen King movie, 1408.
His recording Turning Point featuring Donny McCaslin was released in 2011, Alone Together: The 2 Piano Project in 2012 and The Coastal Suite, a multimedia suite in 2014. Chapter 3, released in 2018 featured guitarist Gilad Hekselman. Sacred Spaces, his latest release was recorded live at a temple during the pandemic and is being released at the end of 2022. 2024 will see the premiere of his newest multimedia work on the fate of the American grasslands, entitled Once Upon A Prairie.
His current practice is long-form music compositions that incorporate multimedia components and deal with social elements such as climate change and racial healing.