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Tom
Baker, Artistic Director and Curator |
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Tom
Baker has been active as a composer, performer and music producer
in the Seattle new-music scene since arriving in 1994. His works have
been performed throughout the United States, in Canada and in Europe.
Tom has appeared as guest conductor for the Seattle Creative Orchestra
and as composer-in-residence for the a cappella vocal ensemble The
Esoterics. As the artistic director and curator of the new-music concert
series, the Seattle Composers' Salon, he is dedicated to producing
and promoting the new and adventurous music which is being created
in the Pacific Northwest. Tom is also the co-director of the Seattle
EXperimental Opera (SEXO) and a co-founder of the new-music recording
label Present Sounds. He has received awards and grants from several
organizations including the Meet The Composer, the Jack Straw Foundation,
the Washington State Arts Commission, Artist Trust, the Seattle Arts
Commission and the King County Arts Commission. Tom's composition
instructors have included Chinary Ung, John Rahn and Joël-François
Durand. He received his doctorate in composition in 1996 from the
University of Washington, where he currently teaches Music Theory.
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Alissa
Rupp, Managing Director |
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Alissa
Rupp has been involved with many local artistic organizations, including
The Seattle Children's Museum, Evergreen Theater Company, Seattle
EXperimental Opera and The Paranoid Quartet. She works as an architect
and project manager at The Portico Group, a multi-disciplinary firm
of architects, landscape architects and exhibit designers. Alissa
is a musician and an avid proponent of new music, especially on a
local level. She was an associate producer on the recording Northwest
Triptych by Present Sounds Recordings, and has served on the boards
of several non-profit organizations, including The Esoterics and Seattle
Pro Musica. She has managed the Seattle Composers' Salon for the last
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