Brett Baker is viewed internationally as a leading brass performer, conductor and educator. He is passionate about
encouraging composers to write pioneering new repertoire being one of the most recorded brass soloists. Brett was
Programme Leader for Musical Arts (previously band musicianship) at the University of Salford (Manchester), where
he taught conducting, performance and art administration. He continues to be an ambassador for Michael Rath Brass
Instruments and is Principal Trombone of the Black Dyke Band and Marketing Lead for Denis Wick Products.
As well as a performance schedule of 40 concerts a year, Brett enjoys presenting workshops, specialising in solo
performance, conducting and band training. He regularly tours in the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand as a
soloist, teacher, conductor and adjudicator.
As a conductor, Brett has many associations with bands in the North of England, and has achieved contest
successes with Northop, Ratby and Longridge bands. He has been guest conductor of the University of Salford Brass
Band, the brass band at the Royal Northern College of Music, Thoresby Colliery, Carlton Main Frickley Colliery and
the Leyland Band. In 2014 Brett conducted Tongwynlais Temperance at the National Finals of Great Britain in the
Royal Albert Hall, London. Brett was conductor of the University of Salford Symphonic Wind Band from 2014-2019.
He is currently Musical Director and tutor of both the Yorkshire Youth Brass Band and the North-East Midlands Youth
Brass Band and has conducted the massed ensemble at Trombonanza Argentina, Directed at the Singapore and
Philippines Low Brass Ensembles, and Dartington International Summer School, the International Brass Band
Summer School and The Film Orchestra in Worcestershire, the National Youth band of Scotland and European Youth
Brass Band.
| Location | Cheshire |
| Telephone | 07773201736 |
| brett.trombone@googlemail.com | |
| X | @bretttrombone |
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