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 | David Baker
Composer David Nathaneil Baker, Jr. (born 1931) is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music and Chairman of the Jazz Department at the Indiana University School of
Music in Bloomington, Indiana. A virtuosic performer on multiple
instruments and top in his field in several disciplines, Mr. Baker has
taught and performed throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, New
Zealand and Japan. He is also co-conductor and co-musical director of the
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Mr. Baker received both Bachelors
and Masters degrees in music education from Indiana University and has
studied with a wide range of master teachers, performers and composers,
including J.J. Johnson, Bobby Brookmeyer, Janos Starker, George Russell,
William Russo, Bernard Heiden and Gunther Schuller. A 1973 Pulitzer Prize
nominee, Mr. Baker has been nominated for a Grammy Award (1979), honored
twice by Down Beat magazine (as a trombonist and for lifetime achievement),
and has received the National Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame
Award (1981), President¹s Award for Distinguished Teaching (1986) from
Indiana University, the Arts Midwest Jazz Masters Award (1990), and the
Governor's Arts Award of the State of Indiana (1991).
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 | Dominique-Rene de Lerma
Dominique-René de Lerma is currently on the music history faculty of the Conservatory of Music at Wisconsin's Lawrence University. He has been engaged in university teaching since 1951, when, not yet having been accorded his B.M. degree in music theory, he became the youngest member ever of the University of Miami's faculty. Subsequently, he accepted appointments at Indiana University and Morgan State University, remaining with each institution for 14 years. He has also served on the faculties of Northwestern University, Florida State University, the University of Oklahoma, and, as Visiting Professor in Library Science, at Kent State University. Prior to his appointment with Lawrence University, he was Director of the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago. His publications number more than 1,000 and have been published in Austria, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, France, England, Australia, and the United States. He was Chief Consultant to Columbia Records for their award-winning Black Composers Series. He regularly serves as a consultant to orchestras, ensembles and concert artists in the United States and Europe.
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 | Richard Fields - (1945-2002)
Memorial to Honor Richard Fields
Richard Fields studied piano and violin and received both a Bachelors and Masters degree from the Juilliard School of Music. He studied piano with Irwin Freundlich, Adolph Baller, Lillian Freundlich, Robert Goldsand, Daniel Pollack and Trula Whelan. He was the winner of the Viotti International Piano Competition (Italy), the National Young Artist Competition (Texas), and the Charleston Symphony Young Artist Competition (South Carolina). He received grants from the Rockefeller Fund for Music and the Ford Foundation. Mr. Fields performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and through such venues as the Chicago Symphony's Allied Arts Series, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and New York's Lincoln Center. As a chamber musician, Mr. Fields was presented by the Cleveland Orchestra. A New York Debut in 1988 received unanimous and unqualified raves from the New York Times. Mr. Fields was also active as a master class teacher, lecturer and competition adjudicator. He was on the faculty of West Chester University (1979-1991) and Peabody Preparatory (1987-1991). He was on the faculty at the College-Conservatory at the University of Cincinnati as Associate Professor of Piano since 1991.
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 | Stephen Shipps
Stephen Shipps was educated at Indiana University studying with the legendary Joseph Gingold. He received his B.M. and M.M. with Honors as well as a Performerâs Certificate at IU. His other teaches include Ivan Galamian and Franco Gulli. Mr. Shipps has appeared as soloist with the Symphonies of Indianapolis, Dallas, Omaha, Seattle and Ann Arbor as well as the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra, the Madeira Bach Festival and the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. He is a member of the Meadowmount Trio and has been associated with the Fine Arts Quartet and the Amadeus Trio, Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony and Opera, Omaha Symphony and Nebraska Sinfonia. He has served as Concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony since 1990. He has recorded solo for Albany, American Gramophone, Bay Cities, NPR, RIAS Berlin, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, among others. He was awarded a dozen Gold and Platinum Records for his solo work on the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Albums. Mr. Shipps was Director of the ASTA National Solo Competition for the past six years, judged the Singapore and Kocian International Competitions as well as serving on the International Advisory Panel of the Indianapolis International Competition. He is currently Professor of Violin and dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan as well as Assistant to the Director and violin faculty at the Meadowmount School of Music.
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