Racer Session #567 | Tom Baker & Kelsey Mines | Sunday September 17, 2023 at 7pm

This will be our first session at our new Gallery 1412 home! Sessions will still be taking place from 7-9pm on 1st and 3rd Sundays. Get directions to Gallery 1412 here.

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RACER COMMUNITY!

We hope you had a great summer off, and we’re so excited to kick our season off with you on Sunday, September 17th at 7pm! This will be our inaugural session in partnership at Gallery 1412, and we’re thrilled to be hosting our friends Tom Baker and Kelsey Mines, who will be playing in duo formation. Around this time of year, we love partnering with faculty at Seattle’s vibrant college music programs to encourage new and returning students to check out what the session is all about. Tom and Kelsey are both incredible faculty members at Cornish College of the Arts: Tom is has long been a professor of composition, theory, and electronic music; Kelsey was recently announced as the college’s new bass instructor.

More on Kelsey:

A Seattle native, Kelsey Mines is a performer, composer, and teacher of the double bass. Kelsey earned her Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from the University of Washington with professor Barry Lieberman. She went on to complete a Masters in Double Bass Performance from Arizona State University under the direction of Catalin Rotaru. She is currently the bass instructor at Cornish College of the Arts. Kelsey has followed her passion for the double bass to the Netherlands, where she studied at Prince Claus Conservatoire before returning to Seattle where she now teaches and performs a variety of styles, from jazz to classical to pop. Wherever she may be, Kelsey aspires to create, collaborate, and perform music that enriches and enlivens the world around her.

More on Tom:

Tom Baker is a composer, guitarist, improviser, and electronic musician who has been active in the Seattle new-music scene since arriving in 1994. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Tom writes chamber music, opera, and electronic music, as well as music for percussion, chamber orchestra, dance, film, and chorus. He is a Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts where he teaches composition, music theory, and electronic music.Tom is active as a performer and improviser, specializing in fretless guitar and live-electronics. The Tom Baker Quartet will release their third album in 2023, and he will be on tour in Europe in 2024 in a duo project with Anne LaBerge. His electronic-interactive-arts collaboration with visual artist Robert Campbell called Manifold2 was was featured in the MoxSonic festival in 2019 and excerpts from their new opera-in-progress called The Language of Change were featured in the Current’s New Media festival in 2021.