Pupils
Among his pupils are Paula Robison, a well-known soloist and chamber musician who is now on the faculty of the New England Conservatory; Jeffrey Khaner, currently principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra, John Curran of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and Brown University, and also for a period principal flute of the Cleveland Orchestra, on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music; Gary Schocker, a flute soloist and composer; Jeanne Baxtresser, who succeeded him as principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic and recently retired to devote herself to teaching at Carnegie Mellon School of Music; Anne Diener Zentner (formerly Giles), principal flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Jasmine Choi, principal flutist for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra; and Anne Briggs, a noted baroque flutist and busy free-lance musician in New York. Other notables include David Shostac; Elizabeth Mann; Eugenia Zukerman; Joshua Smith; Hubert Laws; Janette Erickson; Lisa Byrnes; Damienne Fenlon Dunham; Seth Rosenthal; Laurel Ann Maurer; Brad Garner, on the faculty of the Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; Alan Cox, editor of Baker's Daily Exercises, formerly principal flute of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Opera, on the faculty of the University of Virginia; Jeani Foster, principal flute, Milwaukee Symphony; Young Ji Song, co-principal flute of the Seoul Philharmonic; John Thorne, assistant principal flute of the Houston Symphony; Bart Feller, principal flute of the New Jersey Symphony and the New York City Opera; Renee Siebert, second flute of the New York Philharmonic; Trudy Kane, formerly principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera; Erich Graf, principal flute of the Utah Symphony, David Shostac, principal flute of LA Chamber and Maria Tamburrino, principal flute of the San Jose Symphony.
Baker was also an electronics buff and amateur ham radio operator. He built audio equipment upon which he taped his early solo recordings. The Flute Talk article explained, "His interest in electronics developed into The Oxford Recording Company, a mail-order business he ran out of his home and which produced five of his flute recordings between 1946 and 1951. Baker gave the first American performance with orchestra of the Ibert Flute Concerto in 1948 with the CBS Symphony, and that concert was later issued on Oxford Records." Baker also collaborated with John Serry, Sr. during his tenure at CBS and produced a demonstration recording in 1950 of Mr. Serry's compositions for flute and accordion entitled La Culebra and Desert Rumba.
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