Balcony Sessions

August Balcony Session

August 28, 2020 • 4:00 PM

Live Stream Online

Live Stream from Carmel-by-the-Sea

Monterey Symphony presents a new concert format "Balcony Sessions" featuring your favorite Monterey Symphony musicians performing live 30-minute recitals from the balcony of our downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea office, local theaters, galleries and more! This is an online event that will be streamed via Vimeo to the Monterey Symphony Facebook page and YouTube Channel. This performance will also be available via Roku and IGTV after the live event has ended.

This is an Online Event.

Due to guidelines around gatherings, onsite seating is NOT available for this event.

August 28, 2020 @ 4:00 PM

Will Baker - Principal Bass Trombone
Live from the Monterey Symphony Balcony in Carmel-by-the-Sea

WATCH VIDEO HERE

PROGRAM

Steven Verhelst
On Your Own Now

Raymond Premru
Prelude and Dance

David William Brubeck
Stereogram #2 Juan Tizol
Stereogram #3 George Roberts

Daniela Candillari
Agus fägaimid siùd mar atá sé
...like the lily white...
...since it falls into my lot...

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Will Baker is one of the most sought after young Bass Trombonists working today. He is the Principal Bass Trombonist of the Monterey Symphony and his musicianship has taken him all over the world, including stints with the San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, and Burning Man 2018 with the ArtHaus Collective. Before moving to Northern California, Will was the premier bass trombonist in the state of Iowa, performing as the tenured member of Orchestra Iowa from 2013-17 and the Des Moines Symphony since 2014-18. In 2016, while artist in residence with the Southeast Iowa Symphony (SEISO), Will commissioned and premiered a new bass trombone concerto by composer Robert Tindle titled At Sixty Miles An Hour. In 2018, Will premiered the Wind Ensemble arrangement with Travis Cross and the UCLA Wind Ensemble. He is a faculty member of Las Positas College and the Fredericksburg Brass Institute, and is a founding member of the Des Moines Low Brass Triumvirate (DMLBT).

Will earned a Masters Degree in Bass Trombone performance at Northwestern University where he studied with Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, Peter Ellefson, and Tim Higgins. He graduated Cum Laude from UCLA with a BA in music performance, studying Euphonium and Bass Trombone with Patrick Sheridan. It was Mr. Sheridan that inspired Will to forge a career in music, and for this Pat will always be one of his favorite people in the world.