Jen Baker: Bio
"Baker demonstrated an astonishing range of noise and technique with her instrument between [THS, by Muchmore] and her solo performance in the next, ‘testify’ by Andrea La Rose. Both were testimonies to her incredible talent" -The Phoenix, Bronxville, NY
Trombonist Jen Baker has performed internationally in ensembles spanning from orchestra to free jazz. Awarded a Meet the Composer grant, she commissioned and performed new solo works on the east and west coasts. Baker’s solo multiphonic project, Lyrical Vibrations, has been performed around the country and can also be heard on her solo album, Blue Dreams.
Recording projects include Werner Herzog’s soundtrack Encounters at the End of the World, the Mountain Goats Get Lonely album, Music + One -solo improvisations- on Rastascan Records, and Untitled 1959, on Jerusalem-based label Kadima.
Baker has performed in the International and Eastern Trombone Workshops, Lincoln Center Outdoors, No’west Improvised Music Festival, Kennedy Center's Women in Jazz Festival, International Society of Improvised Music Conference, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, and Vermont Symphony. She has performed and collaborated with Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, LaDonna Smith, Cecil Taylor, and Alvin Curran.
Baker recently moved to New York where she is a member of Bang on a Can's Asphalt Orchestra and also performs with several brass bands. She received music degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Mills College.
