Dr. Bryan Baker

Artistic Director and Conductor of Masterworks Chorale since 2002, Dr. Bryan Baker also holds the positions of Director of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Choral Society, and founder and director of the chamber choir Serenade. He has led many choral clinics, judged countless choral competitions, and frequently appeared as guest conductor in the Bay Area. In addition to the Masterworks orchestra he has conducted the Solaris Chamber Orchestra, the Redwood Symphony, the Peninsula Symphonic Winds, the New Millennium Strings, and the Kensington Symphony.

Having earned bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in music, Dr. Baker served on the faculty of the College of San Mateo for 12 years. He also taught voice at San Francisco State University and Truman University (Missouri), and piano at Foothill College and Arizona State University. He maintains a private studio, and his students have won competitions and appeared in concerts and operas in the Bay Area and across the country.

An accomplished pianist, Dr. Baker has played solo concerts, chamber music and accompanied vocal recitals across the United States and in Europe and South America. Locally he has performed in Davies Symphony Hall, Herbst Theater, and at the Stern Grove Festival. During recent seasons, he played concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Säens and Shostakovich.

Dr. Baker has won prizes in numerous competitions and received grants for performances of chamber music. He has also spent a good deal of time in the theater. His musical director credits include Godspell, Company, The Apple Tree, Side by Side by Sondheim, Les Miserables, and The World Goes ‘Round. His recent roles include The Baker in Into the Woods, Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, and the title character in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.