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Improvisers Exchange Artist-in-Residence (September 18-26, 2018), Renée C. Baker is an accomplished instrumentalist who conducts new music throughout the world that seamlessly blends improvisation and composition.
Award-winning composer Renée Baker presents ICHOR BLACK, based on the opera The Baldwin Chronicles: Negro Ideologies.
