Robert A. Baker
composer
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“… what we can see through the eyes is very limited, much more limited than what we can hear.”
– Karlheinz Stockhausen: From an interview with Lara Lee
for Perfect Sound Forever, online music magazine (January 1999)
WINGS AND ENGINES
for solo violin & orchestra
(excerpt from 2nd mvt.)
[] Selected for the 2007 CMC Ontario
Region Professional Readings Series
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recent news ...
April, 2012
4th Annual Salisbury U Classical Guitar Festival
I am delighted to be writing a new work for SU's 2012 Classical Guitar Festival Ensemble. The work will be for large ensemble in four parts for beginner to advanced guitarists, in both standard and graphic notation, and I will conduct the premiere in the closing festival concert.
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February, 2012
42nd MA-College Music Society conference

A lecture-recital given on the temporal experience of form in relation to my recent solo piano piece Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
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January, 2012
Chanterelle-Verlag
publishes A Forge, and a Scythe
German guitar publisher
Chanterelle
releases their new
publication of one of my early
guitar solos,
A Forge, and a Scythe,
written for and
recorded by
Danielle Cumming.
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November, 2011
New York City's Orchestra of Our Time
to
record Valence III
Selected in their 2011 Call for Scores, Valence III for oboe,
cello and percussion will be recorded by New York City's
long time champion of new music Orchestra of our Time.
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August & March, 2011
Recording sessions at Salisbury University


Nor gates of steel so strong,
but Time decays? for solo piano & Valence IV for six
players recorded at SU's
recording studio.
These
tracks will feature on my
forthcoming CD to be released
in the 2011/12 season.
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March 2011
England's Chiasmus Ensemble
features Valence II on new CD
Chiasmus Live 2010: Music for the Third Millennium released in the UK featuring Valence II, a Chiasmus commission, along with new works by composers from England and Wales.
It's an honour; cheers, James!
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STRING QUARTET #1:
Releasing Anamnesis
(excerpt from 1st mvt.)
[] ISCM Canadian Section for World Music
Days 2010,
Sydney, Australia
[] Finalist in the 6th International Composition Competition, “Città di Udine” 2006, Italy
[] Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop,
2004
, Toronto, Canada
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SHARP EDGES
for chamber ensemble
(excerpt)
[] Selected for inclusion in
New Music Miami 2011 ISCM Festival
[] Written for the
St. Magnus Composers' Course 2009,
Kirkwall, Scotland
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CHAMBER CONCERTO #3: Time Fields
for 15 instrumentss
(excerpt)
[] Honourable Mention in Free Style
Competition 2010, London, England
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Watch an excerpt from a recent lecture-recital given on
February 24, 2012, at the 42nd MA-CMS conference,
George Mason U, VA, USA.
Watch an excerpt of the premiere of Angle - Horizon - Resonance
for solo piano and live electronics on the New Music Salisbury series
at Salisbury U, MD, USA, performed by the composer, May 9, 2011
Watch the second performance by Chiasmus Ensemble of Valence II
at the Didsbury Arts Festival 2010, Manchester, England
VALENCE I
for solo piano
(excerpt)
[] Selected for inclusion in the 2010 Society of
Composers, Inc. National Conference
[] Selected for inclusion in the College Music Society 2009 Mid-Atlantic Composer’s Concert
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VALENCE II
for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
(excerpt)
[] York Spring New Music Festival, England,
[] Didsbury Arts Festival, Manchester, England
[] Selected for inclusion in FSU 15th Biennial
F
estival of New Music, Tallahasee, Florida
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on the COMPOSITIONS page