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Nathan Baker has been the Music Theory Coordinator at Casper College since fall of 2009. Originally from Missoula, Montana, Baker received a B. Mus. in Music Education and Music Composition from Utah State University in 2002, an M.A. in Music Theory from the University of Oregon in 2006, and is nearing completion of the Ph.D. in Music Theory (with a supporting area in Music History) from the University of Oregon. Baker’s research has ranged from neo-Riemannian theory and atonality to the study of harmony and form in video game music; other topics of interest include world music theory and music theory pedagogy. As a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, he was the recipient of the University of Oregon School of Music’s Excellence in Teaching award in 2004.
Baker’s musical activities include playing the trombone and composing and arranging music. He performs with the Wyoming Symphony, the Casper Municipal Band, the Casper College Jazz Ensemble, and local trombone quartet Dem Bones. He was the featured trombone soloist with the Symphony of the Mountain West in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002, and played in the pit for the University of Oregon’s 2002 production of Chicago and several musicals produced by Casper College: Crazy For You, The Sound of Music, and South Pacific. Baker’s compositions and arrangements have been performed by Dem Bones, the trombone ensembles at Utah State University and the University of Oregon, the Utah State University Symphonic Band, and the Mount Logan Middle School after-school opera
program.
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