Musician Paul Baker will perform for the Eubell Club.

Tuesday, April 28th – Ebell Club - Harpist, organist, pianist, director and arranger, Paul Baker keeps a busy schedule of solo performance, recording, conducting and arranging. Paul grew up in Seattle, Washington and attended Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington. He received his Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California. His music on Celtic harp, concert harp, piano organ and harpsichord can be heard on recordings and movie soundtracks. Twice a prizewinner in the International Pop and Jazz harp Competition, he has published 20 arrangements of American standard songs arranged for solo harp. The group Pastiche premiered his arrangements for flute, harp and voice, “A Gershwin Sampler” and “Seven Popular Spanish Songs” at Carnegie Hall. Voted “Best Musical Director of the Year” for his work with Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Assassins”, he has recently performed at the Hollywood bowl with Ann Miller and Charlotte Church, played for the touring companies of “Phantom of the Opera” and “Peter Pan” at the historic Pantages Theater in Hollywood, and worked on several new recordings and film scores. He has been organist and organist/choir director for several of the major churches in the Seattle and Los Angeles areas. Paul’s solo Celtic harp CDs are “The Tranquil Harp” and “The Ladder of the Soul” and his newest CD, “Celtic Harp: The Quiet Path,” has just won Best New Age Album and Best New Age Song in the Independent Music Awards in 2009.

For the past four years Mr. Baker has been the musical director for the William Inge Theater Festival and has created their tributes to Kander and Ebb, Adolph Green and most recently the 2007 tribute for Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. He played for the national tour of “The Producers” starring Jason Alexander and Martin Short at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood and the National Tour of Camelot with Michael York.

Anyone interested in more information, or becoming a member of the Fillmore Ebell Club, may call Trisha Armstrong at 805-727-1901.