ANDREW BAKER
Andrew Baker began playing the cornet with Northop Youth Band in North Wales. After graduating in Music from Nottingham University (where he studied composition with Nicholas Sackman and conducted the University Wind Band and Student Sinfonia) he worked in orchestra administration with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Halle Orchestra, assisting with premieres of works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, James Macmillan and Michael Nyman among many others. He was for a time a member of the National Youth Brass Band of Wales as well as principal trumpet of the North Wales and Clwyd Youth Orchestras, and the Nottingham University Philharmonia.
He has played at most of the major band contests and until recently was the Musical Director of Blackley Band in Manchester. His composition, The Well of St Winefrid for viola, cello and piano was premiered by the Opus 3 Piano Trio in Chicago in March 2003 and his band composition The Cistercians won the Morecambe Band Centenary Composition Competition in 2004. He currently plays for Middleton Band in Manchester, who commissioned and recorded his composition The Sword and The Star.
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