Baker Artist Portfolios

Vocal Performance celebrating the history and culture of African and African Diaspora music composers.

Improvising with oneself both visually and musically. Twisting the music and the visual into abstract forms/sounds that appear somewhat Alien and Sexual.

Use of headphones is recommended!

Founded Charm City Song House for aspiring songwriters to meet monthly for collaboration and shared input on lyrical and musical ideas. Members range from Peabody graduate students and music educators to an award-winning jazz composer. This group later birthed an entirely original concert of true stories, community folk art, dance, and original songs/arrangements which was performed as a free concert for several hundred attendees at Faith Christian Fellowship in December 2014.

"The finest sounds you heard out of Baltimore" - The Deli Magazine, NYC

All of the work centers around acts of destruction committed to commercial audio cassette tape, using the peeled lines of ferric magnetic dust, glossy black cassette tape, brightly colored leader tape and stacks of cassette tape spools. Many of the pieces divide, or impede, a motion in space. These works address the tradition abstraction by introducing corruption, decay and anti-form.

Gunson Roses is whatever Brad Gunson wants to do with the guitar, trombone, electronics, the camera, a projector, a computer, his voice, and his friends from telling jokes, to writing songs, to long exploratory improvisation, to rearranging his favorite popular songs, to performing the music of the Super Mario Brothers video games while audience members play the game on stage, to acting, to shooting music videos, to pouring syrup on pancakes. No style restrictions, no audience pandering, no rules about what can and shouldn't be done. Pure fun and indulgence.

“Blessed with a penchant for writing memorable melodies and openhearted lyrics that complement her full-throated vocals and acoustic strumming, this local singer/songwriter brings to mind Laura Nyro and Fiona Apple. She’s a reminder that folk (the other four-letter f-word) isn’t so bad.”
- John Lewis, Baltimore Magazine

Prom is a musical about the end of innocence in the age of smartphones, with words and music by Derrick Wang.

An early version of Prom was performed at Gilman School and featured in the 2002 Center Stage Young Playwrights Festival (Baltimore, MD).

A Whole Lotta Ish (“an evening of inappropriate music”) was an experimental performance-art showcase featuring the words and music of Derrick Wang, presented at Ars Nova Theater (New York, NY) in 2008.

Works featured on the program have won the American Modern Ensemble Composition Competition and received honors including the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, BMI Student Composer Award, Hugh F. MacColl Prize (Harvard University), and John Day Jackson Prize (Yale School of Music).