CHAMBERLIN, Lorina

Lorine Chamberlin Baird was an American composer, pianist and music educator active during the twentieth century. She was associated with Tacoma, Washington, and was involved with the professional music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon. Her activities included composition, piano performance and music education. Mu Phi Epsilon Library & Archives
Earlier in her career she appears as Lorine Chamberlin Nash and taught at the Academy of Music of Manila in the Philippines. There she taught piano, ear training, dictation, harmony, ensemble playing and accompanying. Contemporary academic research notes that she had studied piano and voice and was part of the international faculty of the Academy during the early 1930s. UF Digital Collections
She later appears as Lorine Chamberlin Baird in records of musical life in Tacoma. In 1957 she performed two-piano repertoire with her daughter, Mary Formosa Pickens, and in 1966 Mu Phi Epsilon programmed an invocation for which Baird had written both the words and the music.