BAIOCCHI, Regina Harris

  Regina Harris Baiocchi is a composer, author, and poet. Her music has been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Philharmonic, US Army Band, American Guild of Organists, Chicago Brass Quintet, Gaudete Brass, Milwaukee Brass Quintet, Lincoln Trio, Avalon String Quartet, and other acclaimed artists. Regina has written music for symphony orchestra, a mass, libretto and opera, marimba concerto, hand drum concerto, ballet, chamber ensembles, choral, jazz, gospel, solo: voice, flute, oboe d’amore, bass oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, and pipe organ.

Commissions: Deliverance (piano): Access Contemporary Music’s Songs About Buildings; Piano Poems: Sarah Cahill; Pastiche: Gaudete Brass; #2020 (oboe d’amore): Alicia Cordoba Tait; Sketches for Piano Trio: anonymous; e. e. cummings songbook (voice, piano): Eileen Strempel; Ancestral Refrain (bass oboe): Alex Klein; Landscapes (voice, viola, piano): 3M Trio; Sweet Baby (voice, piano): Anima Mundi, Voices of Patriots (one-woman show): Samantha Williams, Things Change and Journey (voice, piano): ATS Choir, Our Time and Nourish (SATB, pf): Latin School, Rattenfalle (sextet): ACM Film Fest, and Love Song and I Want to Un-Die You (voice, piano): Dr. Louise Toppin.
Regina’s byline appears in publications by Oxford University, Third World Press, Facts on File, and Center for Black Music Research Journal. Her poetry appears in Obsidian, Modern Haiku, Chicago Tribune, Castle of Our Skins, Rat ‘n’ Rooster Journal of Speculative Fiction, et al. Regina is profiled in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music; International Dictionary of Black Composers; Spirituals to Symphonies; and International Trumpet Guild.
In 2010 Regina founded 6Degrees Composers to feature Women’s music. In 2004 she founded Haiku Festival to promote children, poetry, and literacy. Regina wrote Variations in Black Music, Indigo Sound, Urban Haiku, Blues Haiku; produced three CDs: Hammers, Pipes & Strings, Percussing Up A Storm and Kidstuff. Urban Haiku appears in the film, When Sistas Jump. Her music appears on these CDs: Kaleidoscope; Soul of a Singer; Good News Falls Gently; Lifescapes: one woman’s journey; unto thee i burn, Where Freedom Rings, Good News, and Living Voices. She wrote liner notes for Amore e Tragedie in Musica: Lisa Marie Simmons and Marco Cremaschino. Regina appeared on BBC Radio3’s Florence Price’s Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship.

Awards: 3Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, Jazz Institute of Chicago & Mellon Foundation: New Works, Fresh Voices Commission, Lila Wallace, Arts Midwest, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Chicago Public Library, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. An alumna of New York, DePaul, and Roosevelt universities, Regina studied music composition with Dr. Hale Smith