About Larry Baker

Larry Baker, born in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1948, taught theory and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1973 to 1993.  He also directed the CIM Contemporary Music Ensemble and led the new music ensembles Performance Group and Reconnaissance, conducting and recording numerous premieres in Cleveland and throughout the eastern United States.  Baker is the recipient of several awards, including fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bascom Little Fund, the Ohio Arts Council and ASCAP; in 1983, he won the Cleveland Arts Prize for Music. 

Performances of his music include TARANTULA by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Marimba soloist, Timothy Adams, Jr., and HAYDN’S HEAD by Lyric Opera Cleveland.  His BEFORE ASSEMBLAGES III was recorded by the Indiana Chamber Orchestra and MELOSIS was commissioned and recorded by the Tower Brass Quintet.  RAINMUSIC-EXPANDED was recorded by the CIM Contemporary Music Ensemble and presented at the International Percussive Arts Society Workshops in Bydgoszcz, Poland.  RAINMUSIC was recorded by Cornelia Monske in Germany and released in February 2005.  WITH was recorded by Karel Paukert and released by the Cleveland Museum of Art and Azica Records in February 2006.

Mr. Baker studied composition with Spencer Norton and Charles Hoag at the University of Oklahoma and with Donald Erb at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

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