Baker Artist Portfolios

I am a composer who writes clear, warm, immersive music that focuses on performer agency. Through simple notation or text instructions, players explore parts of their instrument in a way that showcases their mastery of tone and pacing. My work is played regularly in the US and Europe, and in Baltimore I have curated and performed in 2-3 concerts per year of new, often unheard experimental music, as well as lectures on experimental art and politics. I studied with Chaya Czernowin at Harvard University, as well as at UC San Diego and Ithaca College. My music has been performed by ensembles and soloists in the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, and Israel, and a portrait CD is coming out on Carrier Records in 2020. I am Assistant Professor and Director of Integrated Arts at the University of Baltimore, where I won the Distinguished Teaching Award. My writing is published in TEMPO, and I have lectured at the American Musicological Society, American Studies Association, and universities in the US, UK, and Turkey.