Richard Baker (composer/conductor)

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Richard Baker (b.1972) is a British composer and conductor, known equally for his own highly charged and distinctive music and for his performances of contemporary music, especially the music of his contemporaries in the UK.

Richard Baker's musical education took him through Exeter College, Oxford, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the University of London where he did his doctorate. He was appointed Fellow and Director of Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 2005, after having been fellow-commoner since 2001.

Notable compositions of his include 'Los Rábanos' (1998) and 'Learning to Fly' (1999).

In 2006, he was commissioned to write a choral piece for the dedication of the new organ in the Trinity Hall Chapel. The Sacred Organ's Praise was a setting of words from John Dryden's "Song for St Cecilia's Day".