PERFORMING AT THE 2012 CAF
Alicia Baker
Alicia Baker is a 20 year old self-professed music fanatic from Milwaukie, Oregon. She has been playing the accordion since the age of 6, as well as studying piano and voice. Alicia currently attends Oregon State University, where she is in her Junior year as a triple music major, working toward degrees in music education, piano performance, and vocal performance.
In April of 2012, Alicia starred as Queen of the Night in OSU's production of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute". Her future dreams include teaching choral music, along with performing every chance she gets! Alicia has had much success on the accordion as well, winning various competitions including the “Happy Hans Open” at the Kimberley International Old-Time Accordion Competition in 2007, 2010 and 2011. In addition, in 2009 Alicia won the privilege of representing the USA at the Roland International V-Accordion Competition in Rome, Italy.
She has since performed solo concerts at the Kimberley & Leavenworth Old Time Accordion Festivals, American Accordion Association Convention, Cotati Accordion Festival, and the NAMM show. In addition, Alicia performed the 3rd movement of Nikolai Chaikin’s accordion concerto in B-flat major with the Corvallis symphony in October 2011. Alicia strives to play all genres of music well, showing the versatility of her abilities and of the instrument. Some of her favorites include polkas, french musettes, jazz, pop, and techno. Alicia currently works for Roland as an accordion product specialist, where she hopes to continue spreading the joy of accordion music as well as increase the popularity of this wonderful instrument.
