Anna Maria Baeza
Anna Maria Baeza, Clarinetist, is an active solo and chamber musician who has been heard in recital throughout the United States, Canada, France, the Czech Republic and Hungary. She has collaborated with world-renowned oboist
Maurice Bourgue and French hornist Andre Cazallet in chamber music performances in Prague and Budapest under the auspices of the European Mozart Foundation. She has performed on live television broadcasts on French and Czech television and on public radio in the United States. She has been a featured artist on Robert Sherman’s Young Artists Showcase on WQXR, the radio station of the New York Times.
She recorded and performed “Hradčany”, a work for clarinet and orchestra by Eric Funk. This project was in collaboration with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimír Válek. Ms. Baeza has a strong interest in the Music of living composers, and has premiered works written for her by Anthony.
Vazzana, David Bartel, Carlos Carrillo and Isabel Soveral. She has performed at June in Buffalo, a festival and conference dedicated to composers and world class interpreters of new music, established by Morton Feldman in 1975. Here she performed and premiered works by Steve Reich, Bernard Rands, Greg Pfeiffer. As a member of the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players she has premiered works by James Mobberly and Matthew Rosenblum. As a series of projects supported by a two-year Career Development Grant from Concert Artists Guild of New York City, Ms. Baeza commissioned two chamber works by Carlos Carrillo, whose work has been featured at the Casals Festival.
“Anamorphosis”, a work for clarinet and tape by the noted Portuguese composer, Isabel Soveral received its American premiere in Stony Brook in the winter of 1985. Anna Maria concertizes in the summer in Down East Maine in such venues as the Machias Bay Concert Series, the Mary Potterton Concert Series, The Eastport Arts Center and the Hubbard Cottage in the Roosevelt International Park on Campobello Island, Canada. She has premiered several
pieces by Gregory Biss as part of these concerts. She has been featured on the Saint John’s Organ Society Concert series in Bangor, as well as on the Eagle Hill Institute Concert Series in Stueben.
In addition to her solo and chamber performances, Anna Maria has been a member of the Orchestra Pro Unesco in Paris, France, The Orchestra of Santa Fe in New Mexico, the Aspen Festival Orchestra and the Aspen Chamber Orchestra. She has participated in music festivals in Aspen, Banff, Taos/Angelfire, and Prague with fellowships and grants offered in conjunction with the festivals. Ms. Baeza holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Charles Neidich, and Jack Kreiselman. She holds Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Southern California where she worked with David Shifrin, and Mitchell Lurie. Other major teachers have included Guy Deplus. In addition, she has studied with distinguished chamber musicians Julius Levine, Gilbert Kalish and Yehuda Gilad.
Anna Maria teaches at the Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York and is a member of the Juilliard MAP Faculty. In addition Anna Maria Co-Directs the Adult Intensive Chamber Music Weekend for the Chamber Music Center of New York
with Joachim Woitun.