Meredith Elaine Baker at the Cadet Chapel Organ Console (6 March 2005, before her 3 pm Recital), United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. "The largest pipe organ in a worship space in the world."

MEREDITH ELAINE BAKER has been conductor of the Long Island Choral Society since 1979. Primarily a Church Musician, she has sung in choirs since the age of three, studied piano since 1956, organ since 1964, and held church positions since 1966. She has studied a number of additional instruments, and played in orchestras and bands throughout her school years. Flute, violin, and bassoon were her primary instruments with lots of additional work with the recorder family and some brass instruments. Those interested can ask her about her appearance on Martha Stewart's show playing euphonium!

Miss Baker holds a number of professional degrees, a BM and MA both in organ performance from Queens College, CUNY, the Professional Studies Certificate in Church Music from Manhattan School of Music, and the Choirmaster and Fellow Certificates obtained through examination by the American Guild of Organists (AGO). She is District Convener for the Metropolitan and European Chapters of the AGO. She is also a charter member of the Delta Alpha chapter of the music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda.

Miss Baker is a member of the Adjunct and Artist Music Faculty of Nassau Community College, Garden City. She was a member of the Liturgical Music Commission of the Archdiocese of New York from 1993 through 2001 and 2004 through the present. She also serves on the organ subcommittee of the Liturgical Music Commission. She is frequently invited to play organ recitals in the Metropolitan area and to provide workshops on organ technique and service playing, as well as choral warm-ups and repertoire for various organizations, particularly for the AGO.

Her Catholic Cadet Choir at West Point performed during the Prelude at the Central Park Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II, the prelude for the Yankee Stadium Mass of Pope Benedict XVI, and for numerous Masses celebrated by the late Archbishop Cardinal O'Connor and current Archbishop Cardinal Egan of New York, and for Archbishops Edwin O'Brien and Timothy Broglio of the Military Ordinariate.

Meredith Elaine Baker
Director of Music
Most Holy Trinity Chapel West Point, New York
Conductor, Long Island Choral Society since 1979

http://www.dean.usma.edu/catholicchoir
http://www.usma.edu/Chaplain/mht/
http://www.lics.org

E-Mail: MBaker@lics.org