Lin Foulk Baird is Professor of Horn at Western Michigan University, where she teaches horn and is a member of the Western Brass Quintet and Western Wind Quintet. She has performed with Boston Brass, Monarch Brass, and as a soloist at five International Horn Symposia (including Valencia, Spain). In Michigan she frequently performs with the Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras. She has served as Principal Horn with the Oshkosh and Manitowoc Symphony Orchestras, was a member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra (with which she toured the Netherlands in 2001) and has frequently performed as substitute and extra musician with the Milwaukee and Madison Symphony Orchestras. With the Western Brass Quintet she has performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City; in Bangkok, Thailand; Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; Chengdu, China; and at universities across the United States. She performed and presented classes in Chengdu, China; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; and Bogota, Colombia with the Western Wind Quintet. During the summer, she teaches horn and chamber music at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hampshire.
Especially interested in music with horn by women composers, Dr. Baird has performed and presented lectures on works by women and female performers at universities and festivals throughout the United States. Her first solo compact disc, “Four Elements: Works for Horn and Piano by Female Composers,” was released in 2004 and is now available digitally through Centaur Records. Her popular website, www.linfoulkbaird.org, lists over 2,200 works with horn by women composers. She has served on the Board of the International Women’s Brass Conference (she co-hosted the IWBC Conference in 2012) and the International Alliance for Women in Music, in which she organized IAWM’s annual concert for three seasons (in Washington, D. C.; Miami, FL; and Fullerton, CA).
She currently lives in southwest Michigan with her husband Mike and son Jasper.
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