Audition Cafe

Introduction

Lindsay Baker, from Fairborn, Ohio, completed the Master of Music program in Flute Performance at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory, under the tutelage of Dr. Mary Posses. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance at the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music, studying with Dr. Leonard Garrison and Dr. Sophia Tegart. Ms. Baker was selected as piccoloist for the National Flute Association’s Collegiate Flute Choir at the Chicago NFA Convention, is a winner of the Kansas City Musical Club Scholarship Audition Competition, and was a finalist in the University of Idaho Concerto Competition.

Ensembles and artists she has performed with include the Lima Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Ohio Philharmonic, Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, New Albany Symphony Orchestra, Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra, Kettering Praise Orchestra, Idaho Bach Festival, Bach Society of Dayton, Kettering Advent Ringers, Jeremy Winston Chorale International, Grammy Award winner Marlow Rosado, and Tito Puente Jr. She has been a solo flute performing member of the Dayton Music Club since 2019, and has also performed in master classes for world-renowned flutists including William Bennett, Carol Wincenc, Jennifer Gunn, and Lorna McGhee.

In addition to being an active performer, Ms. Baker is the flute adjunct at Stivers School for the Arts, in Dayton, Ohio, a flute instructor at Spring Valley Academy in Centerville, Ohio, taught a flute masterclass to the flute studio at Sand Dollar Music in Centerville, Ohio, and served as an adjudicator for the National Federation of Music Clubs Federation Festival. She was elected and has served four years as a board director for the Dayton Music Club, in Dayton, Ohio.