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Garth Baxter is noted as a modern traditionalist composer. This is a style that combines the traditions of form and clear melodic writing with the use of contemporary approaches to harmonies and other elements. He has composed works for various performance mediums, ranging from intimate solo and small group settings to larger ensembles such as orchestra and concert band. His compositions have been performed around the world.

Upcoming Performances

St. George's School in Edinburgh, Scotland, will present Federico García Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba, Nov. 5-6, 2025.

The production will include my songs for the play:

  • Little Lamb
    • and
    • Here come the Reapers

      • St. George's School Garscube Terrace Edinburgh, Scotland EH12 6BG

      Renowned Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams, accompanied by pianist Scott Crowne, will present a concert as part of Music Gettysburg at the United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:

      • A Programme of British and American Song
      • with music by:
      • George Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad
      • Garth Baxter, Skywriting
      • William Bolcom, Gettysburg, July 1, 1863
      • Grace Williams, My Last Duchess
      • Garth Baxter, Three From Sara
      • Benjamin Britten, Three Welsh Folk Songs
      • Sunday, October 5, 2025, 3 p.m.
      • 61 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, PA 17325

      Soprano Katherine Merryman will present a concert of my music with a few selections from other contemporary composers.
      • Saturday, November 1, 2025, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
      • Garden Chapel at the University of Maryland
      • 7744 Regents Dr, College Park, MD 20742

      Recent Performances

      At the Last Ember Light for solo guitar was played by guitarist Youngik Jang and my song Crossing Over the Border was performed by soprano Ji Eun Kim and pianist Bonghee Lee at the Baltimore Composers Forum presentation of Intersegnal 38-- Composing the Global Peace.
      • March 14, 2025, at 8 p.m.
      • The Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
      • 3740 Blenheim Blvd., Fairfax, VA 22030

        • and
      • Feb. 22, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
      • The Fine Arts Building on the campus of Towson University, in Towson, MD

        • The song cycle Skywriting, using the poetry of the late Linda Pastan, was performed by soprano Katherine Boyce and pianist Elizabeth Hill on the 2024 CSMC (Composer’s Society of Montgomery County) Fall Concert. The song Wrapped in the Wind and the Sun was also performed by clarinetist Mylah Kittle and pianist Elizabeth Hill.
        • Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm at the
        • Calvary Lutheran Church, 9545 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD

        The chamber opera, A Pregnant Pause, written with librettist Alize Rozsnyai, was performed in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in four performances:
        The production featured sopranos Alize Francheska Rozsnyai, Marcelle McGuirk and Katherine Boyce, and was directed by Vanessa Ogbuehi.
        • Friday, September 27th at 8 pm
        • Saturday, September 28th at 3 pm and 8 pm
        • Sunday, September 29th at 3 pm
        • At at the SideQuest Theater
        • 2030 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

        The film of the premiere of A Pregnant Pause was selected for the Providence Fringe Festival (July 14 - 27, 2024)
        Garth's works A Parting Glass for woodwind quintet and A Jagged Path for woodwind quintet and piano was performed by the Sunderman Wind Quintet (with pianist Scott Crowne)
        • June 9, 2024, 4 pm
        • St. John's Episcopal Church
        • 101 South Prospect St.
        • Hagerstown, MD
        • 21740

        Garth's work A Jagged Path for woodwind quintet and piano was played by the Sunderman Wind Quintet with pianist Scott Crowne at the
        • Sunderman Conservatory
        • Gettysburg College
        • Schmucker Hall
        • Recital Hall, room 222
        • 300 North Washington Street
        • Gettysburg, PA 17325
        • Monday, April 22, 7 PM

        The premiere of A Pregnant Pause by Garth Baxter and Alize Rozsnyai was performed:

        April 12, 2024, 7:30 PM

        Serena-- Alize Rozsnyai
        Pro Angel-- Katherine Boyce
        Con Angel-- Annie Gill
        Pianist -- Aaron Thacker
        Directed by Stephen Strosnider

        Click here for more details

        Soprano Alicia Woodberry and pianist Justin Pechulis will perform a short program of art songs on women's issues related to the opera prior to the premiere.

        The songs Little Lamb and Here Come the Reapers were performed in the San Diego State University Theatre department's production of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca.
        March 15-March 22, 2024
        It was held in the Prebys Theater on the campus of San Diego State University.
        https://ttf.sdsu.edu/events/the-house-of-bernarda-alba

        Garth's work Crossing Over the Border was performed by pianist Bonghee Lee and soprano Ji Eun Park (Ji Eun Kim) as part of the Intersegmental 38: Baltimore concert presented by the Baltimore Composers Forum. Also, on the program was At the Last Ember Light performed by guitarist Young Jun Lim

        • November 19, 2023 2 PM
        • An die Musik LIVE!
        • 409 N Charles St
        • Baltimore, MD 21201
        Scenes and selections from the opera Lily were presented in a performance/lecture on

        • November 16, 2023 at 1 PM
        • Monroe Township Library
        • 4 Municipal Plaza,
        • WMonroe Twp., NJ 08831

        Alto Saxophonist Dave Duree and pianist Rachel Andrews played Garth's work, Des Larmes Encadrées at the Carroll County Arts Council
        • November 5, 2023
        • Carroll County Arts Center
        • 91 West Main Street
        • Westminster, MD 21157

        Garth's work Resting for vibraphone, clarinet, voice and narrator was performed on the Let It Be Said concert at The Carroll County Arts Council. The concert featured writer Miesha Lowery, performers/narrators Jada Lane, Mohammad Rohaizad Suaidi, clarinetist Katherine Repka and vibraphonist Michael Barranco

        • August 27, 2023
        • Carroll County Arts Center
        • 91 West Main Street
        • Westminster, MD 21157

        The aria, The Greatest Gift,  from the chamber opera A Pregnant Pause, was 
        performed Friday, August 18, 2023, 6:30 PM, 
        at 
        Trinity@22nd, 2212 Spruce St, Philadelphia
        by Soprano Alize Rozsnyai and pianist Jane Kozhevnikova.
         
        A Pregnant Pause is a new chamber opera written by Garth Baxter and librettist Alize Rozsnyai. The opera centers around Serena who is waiting for the results of a home pregnancy test. She doesn't know if she wants to be pregnant or not. 
        The touching aria The Greatest Gift opens the opera.  

        Soprano Arianna Arnold and pianist Valerie Hsu performed Garth's songs Let it be you and The Long Hill as part of the Chalice Concert series.
        • April 29, 2023
        • Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia
        • Columbia, MD

        Garth's work La Nostalgie was played by clarinetist Mylah Kittle and guitarist Tommy Gray
        • April 30, 2023
        • 3PM
        • JBK Theatre
        • Frederick Community College
        • 7932 Opossumtown Pike
        • Frederick, MD 21701

        Garth's work La Nostalgie was played by clarinetist Mylah Kittle and guitarist Tommy Gray
        • May 27, 2023
        • 4PM
        • JBK Theatre
        • Frederick Community College
        • 7932 Opossumtown Pike
        • Frederick, MD 21701

        Garth's work Resting, for vibraphone, clarinet, voice and narrator was performed on the Let It Be Said concert at The Writer's Center. The concert featured writer Miesha Lowery, performers/narrators Jada Lane, Mohammad Rohaizad Suaidi, clarinetist Katherine Repka and vibraphonist Michael Barranco.

        • February 11, 2023, 2 PM
        • 4508 Walsh Street
        • Chevy Chase, MD 20815

        The Arabesque Duo (Troy King and Kathrin Murray) performed Garth's work for two guitars, Edgefield, at the Carroll County Arts Council on the Sunday Classic Concert Series. $22, $25.

        • February 12, 2023, 2 PM.
        • 91 West Main Street
        • Westminster, MD 21157
        Garth's work Resting, for vibraphone, clarinet, voice and narrator was performed on the Let It Be Said concert at Le Mondo. The concert featured writer Miesha Lowery, performers/narrators Jada Lane, Mohammad Rohaizad Suaidi, clarinetist Katherine Repka and vibraphonist Michael Barranco.

        • February 25, 2023, 2 PM and 4 PM
        • 404 N. Howard Street
        • Baltimore, MD 21201
        Garth's Four Songs From Twelfth Night was performed in concert by soprano Katie Procell and mezzo soprano Ivey Barr. Guitarist Jeremy Lyons accompanied the singers. There were also works by Bellni, Gounod, Heggie and Bauld.

        • Shakespeare in Opera and Song
        • Sat, September 10, 2022
        • 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
        • Katie Procell, soprano and Ivey Barr, mezzo soprano
        • Jeremy Lyons, Guitar Donald Lee III, piano
        • Emmcdee Gallery
        • 82 Lower Alabama Street
        • Atlanta, GA 30303
        • $20
        https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shakespeare-in-opera-song-tickets-388102253287?fbclid=IwAR1eKFXR-_uFspVqhuG3o7DPcNMtne3TS2TJl1MpSmrOKZWza6JI1nhMuoA

        Garth's work From the Headwaters was performed by the West Shore Piano Trio at the Lyceum Museum in Alexandria, Va on

        • Sunday , September 25th at 3 pm.
        • 201 S Washington St,
        • Alexandria, VA 22314
        • Suggested donation: $20

            • We are thrilled to announce that there was a video production of "Lily" in Summer 2022 under the direction of Stephen Strosnider. It took place on the campus of McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYOaQlz2PY YouTube

            The principals are:
            Katie Procell as Lily
            Han Jeong Wook as Seldon
            Jeffrey Gates as Gus
            Allison Deady as Judy
            Marcelle McGuirck as the Milliner
            The Lily Symphonic Ensemble conducted by Juliano Aniceto
            Stephen Strosnider, Director
            Video production by Fraimework Productions
            Garth's work, MacPherson's Lament was played in the concert String Theory II, May 7th at 8:15. by the Azimuth String Quartet. Also on the program were works by Ray Fields, Janice Macaulay, Ian Rashkin, Anna Rubin, and George F. Spicka.. Free and Streaming at: https://youtu.be/nF3Bjfk11z4
            Garth's work MacPherson's Lament was performed by the Gliss String Quartet on the concert Quartet of Friends: Composers and String Players

            • Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 4 pm
            • St. John's Episcopal Church,
            • 101 S Prospect St,
            • Hagerstown, MD 21740

            Also represented on the program were works by Hollis Thoms, Paul Weber and Robert Garson Skinnell

            On October 16th, 2021 7 PM (EDT) Soprano Katie Procell and pianist Valerie Hsu presented An Evening of Song. They performed three of Garth's songs: Nights Without Sleep, Let It Be You and Flirt. The concert also featured works by Amy Beach, Rossini, Mendelssohn and Purcell as well as several by fellow contemporary American composer Peter Dayton. (The performance will continue to be shown until November 16th) https://www.sparrowlive.com/event-details/an-evening-of-song

            Trinity School at Meadow View, Falls Church, VA, under the direction of James Clancy, presented Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Garth's Four Songs from Twelfth Night were featured in the production. For more information call 703-876-1920.
            • October 16, 2021
            • McClean Presbyterian Church
            • McLean, VA.

            Let's End With a Waltz was performed by the Parkway Brass on the Baltimore Composers Forum Let’s Get Technical concert
            • Sat December 4, 2021 8:15pm

            MacPherson's Lament for string quartet was played by the Riverside Chamber Ensemble at the Baltimore Composers Forum Concert on
            • October 24, 2020, 3 pm
            • Glenelg United Methodist Church
            • 13900 Burntwoods Road
            • Glenelg, MD 21737

            Garth's song Frida Kahlo's Palette was performed by mezzo soprano Christine Thomas and pianist Andrew Stewart as part of the Baltimore Composers Forum

            • Four Colors, Four Elements concert
            • Sat, September 4, 2021, 8:15pm

            Garth's song If You Had Known was performed by baritone Jason Buckwalter and pianist Bonghee Lee. Also, The Long Hill was performed by Soprano Elise Christina Jenkins and pianist Bonghee Lee as part of the Baltimore Composers Forum concert

              Sonitus
            • July 17, 2021 8:30pm

            This was an online concert.

            Garth's song I am gone, Sir will be performed in the presentation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by the Out of the Woods Theatre

            • August 12-14, 2021, 5:30 pm
            • Monk's Botanical Gardens, Wausau, Wisconsin

            Garth's song Flirt, performed by soprano Katie Procell and pianist Valerie Hsu was on the Baltimore Composers Forum Concert
            • Vignettes
            • Sat, July 3, 2021, 8:15pm

            September 27, 2020, 4:15pm - Mini(atures) - virtual concert --Garth's work The Little Flirt was played by pianist Bonghee Lee as part of a concert of one minute works by the members of the Baltimore Composers Forum.

            November 21, 2020, 8:15pm -The Baltimore Composers Forum presented Sound in Motion VI - a virtual performance -- This recital was in conjunction with dancers. Garth's piano work Resistance was featured during this recital.

            Chamber Reflections, Music by Garth Baxter and Ronald Pearl

            Garth Baxter's songs Spanish Johnny, Grandmother, think not I forget, There will come soft rains, Inn of Earth and February Twilight and April Twilight were performed by soprano Katie Procell and guitarist Jeremy Lyons. Also, When Lights Begin to Show for flute, clarinet and guitar were performed by flutist Melissa Wertheimer (who also played on the song April Twilight), clarinetist Jennifer Hughson and guitarist Jeremy Lyons. At a concert of music by composers Ronald Pearl and Garth Baxter at

            • November 7, 3:30 pm
            • Carroll Community College
            • Scott Center
            • 1601 Washington Road
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            The Silver Run was performed at a flute recital, featuring Isabelle Pazar on Flute and Ludmilla Krasin on piano:
            • February 10, 2020 at 7:30 pm
            • Fine Arts Center
            • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
            • 151 Presidents Dr, Amherst, MA 01003

            Garth's work for woodwind quintet A Parting Glass was premiered by the Patagonia Winds at the Baltimore Composers Forum concert
            • Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 3 PM
            • at St. Matthews Catholic Church
            • 5401 Loch Raven Blvd.
            • Baltimore, MD 21239

            Flutist Karen Johnson and pianist Britton Day played The Silver Run
            • Saturday, July 6, 2019
            • at the Hidden Music Seminar
            • 88 Carmel Valley Road
            • Carmel, CA

            The Four Songs from Twelfth Night were performed in the theatrical production of Shakespeare's play July 18th and 19th, 2019 by the theater department of Theresien Gymnasium, Munchen
            • 7:00pm
            • at Pasinger Fabrik
            • August-Exter-Strasse 1
            • Munich, Germany

            On June 1, 2019, 5:30 PM at
            the Alba International Music Festival in Alba, Italy Flutist Karen Johnson and pianist Jeffery Chappell will play The Silver Run
            as part of the concert, Flute Extravaganza.

            The concert will be held at:
            Chiesa della Maddalena (CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA MADDALENA)
            Via Vittorio Emanuele, 28, 12051 Alba CN, Italy

            Songs of Garth Baxter and Hollis Thoms

            Music Gettysburg presents music for voice and piano with Soprano Annie Gill, Tenor Joseph Regan, Baritone Jason Thoms and pianist Andrew Stewart Garth Baxter's Four Views of Love, Is this the cost? (from Lily), Nights without sleep, A wife in London, Two Last Songs and I have said I love you/I dare not dream (from Lily) will be performed. There will be a number of songs by Hollis Thoms as well as several operatic duets from Carmen and Candide.
            • Sunday, March 17, 2019 4 PM
            • United Lutheran Seminary Chapel
            • 61 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, PA
            • Free

            Garth Baxter's Rusticola for solo guitar will be performed by Mark Edwards as well as his work When Lights Begin to Show for flute, clarinet and guitar. This is part of the Baltimore Composers Forum spring concert.
            • April 7, 2019 3 PM
            • St. Matthews Catholic Church
            • 5401 Loch Raven Blvd, Baltimore
            • MD 21239
            • $15/10

            Elise Christina Jenkins, will be performing Garth's work "Afternoon on a Hill" At the Baltimore Musicales concert
            • June 2, 2019 3 pm
            • Baltimore War Memorial
            • 101 N Gay St
            • Baltimore, MD 21202

            Soprano Annie Gill and pianist Andrew Stewart performed Two Last Songs and Is this the Cost?
            • Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 7:30 pm
            • At Edenwald Retirement Community
            • 800 Southerly Road
            • Towson,MD 21286

            Saxophonist Kenny Baik and pianist Bonghee Lee played Garth's piece Des Larmes Encadrées in concert December 13, 2018 at Hebei Institute of Communication College, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China

            Saxophonist Kenny Baik and pianist Bonghee Lee played Garth's piece Des Larmes Encadrées in concert December 12, 2018 at Shandong University of Art in Jinan, China.

            The McDaniel College Choir performed The Battle (from The Battle Cry: A tragedy) for SATB and piano as part of their concert Songs of Peace
            • Sunday, December 2, 2018, 7 pm
            • McDaniel College
            • 2 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            April Twilight for soprano, flute and guitar was performed by Cora Gamelin-Osenbach and the Fairfield Duo (flutist Nora Suggs and Guitarist Candice Mowbray)
            • Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 4 pm
            • at Trinity Episcopal Church
            • 200 S. 2nd Street
            • Pottsville, PA 17901

            Saxophonist Kenny Baik and pianist Bonghee Lee performed Des Larmes Encadrées as part of the Baltimore Composers Forum Fall recital.
            • Saturday, November 17, 2018, 7:30 pm
            • Corner Community Center
            • 5802 Roland Avenue Baltimore, MD 21210

            Soprano, Angela Presutti Korbitz and guitarist Ron Korbitz performed Garth's work Two Remembrances (August and Gone with the wind--Columbia Music) on a concert entitled: "Troubadours and Vagabonds"
            • Tuesday, July 24th at 7:30
            • Mayslake Peabody – Library
            • 1717 West 31st Street
            • Oakbrook, IL 60523

            ASK THE MOON Release Concert, in celebration of the recent release of the CD from Navona Records. Soprano Annie Gill, tenor Peter Scott Drackley, pianist Andrew Stewart and flutist Melissa Wertheimer performed songs for voice and piano by Garth Baxter
            • May 12, 2018, 7:30
            • Haebler Memorial Chapel
            • Goucher College
            • 1021 Dulaney Valley Road
            • Towson, MD 21204
            • Free

            The Atlantic Guitar Quartet will premier A Jagged Path (written for them):
            • May 20, 2018, 6:00 PM
            • The Engineers Club
            • 11 Mount Vernon Place
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            Garth's piece Il y a longtemps for violin and piano was premiered by violinist Heather Haughn and pianist Jay DeWire. The concert was presented by the Baltimore Composers Forum. Tickets are $15/10 at the door.
            • Saturday, November 18th at 7:30
            • Christ Lutheran Church, Inner Harbor
            • 701 South Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD 21230

            Three Poems from Edna St. Vincent Millay were performed by soprano Annie Gill and pianist Timothy McReynolds as part of the 25th Anniversary concert for the Baltimore Composers Forum.
            • Saturday, April 21 at 7:00
            • Christ Lutheran Church, Inner Harbor
            • 701 South Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD 21230

            Soprano Annie Gill premiered Garth's mini song cycle Two Last Songs on:
            • August 31st, 2017, at 7:30 pm
            • Edenwald Retirement Community
            • 800 Southerly Road
            • Towson, MD 21286
            (These songs were written for Annie)

            Let's End With a Waltz for Brass Quintet will be played Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 3 pm on the concert "Brass in Baker" by the McDaniel Faculty Brass Quintet at Baker Chapel on the campus of McDaniel College. This concert is part of the Chamber Music on the Hill series.
            • McDaniel College
            • 2 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            Garth Baxter's song Travel was performed by Baritone Jason Buckwalter and pianist Andrew Stewart
            • Thursday, March 23rd at 7:30 PM
            • Edenwald Retirement Community
            • 800 Southerly Road
            • Towson, MD 21286

            Soprano Annie Gill and pianist Joy Schreier performed Three Poems from Edna St. Vincent Millay
            • January 15, 2017, 7 PM
            • An die Musik
            • 409 North Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD

            La Nostalgie was performed by Belle Triste (Guitarist Candice Mowbray and clarinetist Anita Thomas)
            • December 4, 2016, 3 PM
            • Washington County Free Library
            • South Potomac Street
            • Hagerstown, MD
            • Free
            • February 12, 2017
            • St. Peter and Paul
            • Easton, MD
            • March 19, 2017
            • Calvary United Methodist Church
            • Frederick, MD
            • Free
            • April 22, 2017 7 pm
            • Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan
            • Knoxville, TN

            Tenor Joseph Regan and Pianist Tim McReynolds premiered Garth's song Nights Without Sleep and his song cycle Three Poems from Edna St. Vincent Millay will be performed by Soprano Annie Gill and pianist Tim McReynolds. This is part of the fall Baltimore Composers Forum concert:
            • Saturday, November 19th at 7:30
            • Christ Lutheran Church Inner Harbor,
            • 701 S. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD.

            Garth's work La Nostalgie for clarinet and guitar was played by Belle Triste with guitarist Candice Mowbray and clarinetist Anita Thomas
            • November 20, 2016
            • Emmanuel United Church of Christ, Hanover, PA
            • 3pm, Free Admission
            • www.emmanuelucc.org

            To Aegir was performed by the Towson University Guitar Ensemble
            • December 1, 2016 8:15
            • Recital Hall
            • Center for the Arts
            • Towson University
            • 7700 Osler Drive,
            • Towson, MD 21252
            • FREE

            Garth's piece for choir Songs of Life (A Chart of a Small Sea, The House of Dreams and A Prayer) was performed by the McDaniel College Choir
            • Sunday, December 4 at 7pm.
            • 1 College Hill Dr.
            • Westminster, MD 21157
            Garth's work Des Larmes Encadrées was performed as part of the concert

            MELLIFLUOUS SINGLE REED SOUNDS FOR CLARINET AND SAXOPHONE.

            The performers were Saxophonist Dave Duree and pianist Rachel Andrews.
            • Monday, October 24, 2016, 7 PM
            • McDaniel College
            • McDaniel Lounge
            • 2 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157
            • Free and open to the public

            The Arabesque Duo (Troy King and Kathrin Murray) played Edgefield for two Guitars
            • Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 7:30 at
            • Carroll Community College
            • 1601 Washington Road
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            Soprano Annie Gill and pianist Andrew Stewart gave the premier Garth's song cycle: Three Poems from Edna St. Vincent Millay (1. Afternoon on a Hill, 2. Lament, 3. Travel)
            • Thursday, August 18th, 2016, 7:30 PM
            • Edenwald Retirement Community
            • 800 Southerly Road
            • Towson, MD 21286

            MacPherson's Lament was played by the Azimuth String Quartet
            • Thursday, May 19th, at noon
            • Brightview Westminster Ridge
            • 505 High Acre Dr, Westminster, MD 21157

            MacPherson's Lament was played by the Azimuth String Quartet
            • Saturday, May 21st at 7:30 pm at
            • Christ Lutheran Church
            • 701 South Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD 21230

            Garth Baxter's The Four Songs from Twelfth Night was performed as part of a concert at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. It was part of a concert commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. The main portion of the concert was a presentation of "O, know, sweet love, I only write of you" an opera for soprano, baritone and string quartet based on selected Shakespeare sonnets by Hollis Thoms.

            • Saturday, February 13, 2016, 7:00 pm
            • Joy Reigns Lutheran Church
            • Edgewater, MD

            Grandmother, think not I forget, was performed as well as the arias Long Ago and How Strange to Think from the opera Lily by Soprana Shannah Timms Yerofeyeva and Diana Greene in a concert presented by the MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes

            • December 6th at 3 PM
            • Franciscan Oaks
            • 19 Pocono Road
            • Denville, NJ

            Garth Baxter's Let's End With a Waltz (for brass quintet) received its premier at the Baltimore Composers Forum concert Autumn Brass. This work was written for the Lyric Brass Quintet who were the performing artists for this concert. Admission is $15 ($10 students), cash only at the door.

            • Friday, November 13, 2015, 7:30pm
            • An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            La Nostalgie for flute and guitar was performed by Noreen Friedman and Bob Wysong

            • February 21 at 8:30 am
            • Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair
            • Sheraton Reston Hotel
            • 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
            • Reston, VA 20191

            Des Larmes Encadrées was performed by Jeremy Koch, Saxophone and Andrew Stewart, Piano.

            • Friday, November 7th, 2014 7:30 pm
            • An die Musik
            • 409 North Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            Soprano Laura Strickling and Pianist Lisa Stepanova, Winners of the 2013 Liszt-Garrison International Competition, performed Garth's song cycle Three Poems by Linda Pastan at the Chamber Music on the Hill concert held in the Forum in Decker College Center on the campus of McDaniel College

            • Sunday, November 2, 2014, 7 PM
            • Forum in Decker College Center on the campus of McDaniel College
            • 2 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            And Death Shall Have No Dominion was performed by the Owensboro Community and Technical College Chorus, and the Kentucky Youth Chorale under the direction of Dr. Constance Ford. The Songs of Life were performed by the Kentucky Youth Chorale directed by Julie White.

            • Tuesday, October 28, 2014 7:00 pm
            • Third Baptist Church
            • 527 Allen Street
            • Owensboro, Kentucky 42303

            Katherine Keem sang Portrait at 44 and Is this the cost? The penalty I pay? as part of the OperaBelle concert at the Arts@midday series at the St. Albans Parish

            • Friday, October 17, 2014 12:15
            • St. Albans Parish
            • 3001 Wisconsin Ave. NW
            • Washington, DC 20016

            Self Portrait at 44, Marks, The Long Hill, Is this the cost? and Grandmother, think not I forget were performed by Soprano Katherine Keem and pianist Andrew Stewart at the OperaBelle recital at Edenwald.
            • Friday, September 26th, 7:30 PM
            • Edenwald Retirement Community
            • 800 Southerly Road
            • Towson, MD 21286

            The Baltimore Philharmonia Orchestra played La Sagesse. (This was the winning composition from the Baltimore Composers Forum competition.)
            • May 11, 2014, 3 PM
            • Loch Raven High School
            • 1212 Cowpens Avenue
            • Towson, MD 21286

            The Atlantic Guitar Quartet played To Aegir and Shenandoah: A Fantasy.

            • Friday, May 9th, 2014, 7:30
            • The Engineers Club
            • 11 West Mount Vernon Place
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            The Atlantic Guitar Quartet played the following compositions:
            To Aegir for 4 guitars
            Edgefield for 2 Guitars
            Shenandoah: A Fantasy for 4 Guitars

            • Friday, April 4, 2014, 7:30
            • The Baltimore Composers Forum presents
            • Spring Sprigs at
            • An die Musik
            • 409 North Charles St.
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            Katherine Keem and Kathrin Murray played selections from the CD Katherine Keem Sings Songs and Arias by Garth Baxter.
            • Monday, February 24, 2014, 7 PM
            • McDaniel Lounge
            • McDaniel College
            • 2 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            Soprano Katherine Keem and Pianist Andrew Stewart gave the world premier of: Is this the cost? The penalty I pay? from Act II, Scene II of Lily. This is part of the series "Happenings at the Harman".
            • Wednesday Feb, 19th at noon
            • The Shakespeare Theatre,
            • 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004

            Nicholus Currie and Diana Greene played Could You Dream What I Dream for violin and piano.

            • Thursday, February 6, 2014, 7 PM
            • Carroll Community College
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            The Silver Run and Variations on the Willow Tree was performed by flutist Amber Rose Ennis. Ms. Ennis was accompanied by pianist Tobias Napleton who also played solo piano music including Mr. Baxter's Romance without words. In addition vocalist Willow L. J. Moss sang The Four Songs from Twelfth Night by Mr. Baxter accompanied by guitarist Matt Willcocks.

            • Saturday, September 28, 2013
            • The New Inn
            • 16 Northgate Street
            • Gloucester GL1 1SF
            • England

            The Silver Run and Variations on the Willow Tree was performed by flutist Amber Rose Ennis. Ms. Ennis was accompanied by pianist Tobias Napleton who also played solo piano music including Mr. Baxter's Romance without words. In addition vocalist Willow L. J. Moss sang The Four Songs from Twelfth Night by Mr. Baxter accompanied by guitarist Matt Willcocks.

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            • Friday, 8 PM, September 27, 2013
            • Weston Art Gallery
            • 3 Locking Road
            • Weston Super Mare,
            • North Somerset BS23 3BY
            • England

            Kathrine Keem, accompanied by Andrew Stewart, gave the premier of the aria Is this the cost? The penalty I pay? from the opera Lily As part of the OperaBelle performance on Wed. Feb 19th at noon. At the Happenings at the Harman series at the
            • Shakespeare Theatre
            • Sidney Harman Hall
            • 610 F Street, NW
            • Washington, DC 20004

            Katherine Keem and Kathrin Murray performed a number of Mr. Baxter's songs for voice and guitar from their upcoming CD, Katherine Keem Sings Songs and Arias by Garth Baxter.

            • McDaniel Lounge at McDaniel College
            • February 24, 2014 , 7 PM,
            • 2 College Hill,
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            The Friedman-Wysong Duo performed A Touch 'O Carolan for Flute and Guitar at
            • Sandy Spring Museum
            • Thursday, July 25, 2013, 7:30 PM
            • 17901 Bentley Road
            • Sandy Spring, MD 20860

            The aria, How Strange to Think, from Act II, Scene II of Lily and the song Grandmother, think not I forget was performed by Megan Ihnen, mezzo soprano and Hillary Kruh, pianist at the
            • Baltimore Composers Forum 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert
            • March 8, 2013, 7:30 pm
            • An die Musik
            • 409 North Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD 20201

            Grandmother, Think Not I Forget and A Wife in London was performed by Soprano Katherine Keem and pianist Andrew Stewart at the Opera Belle concert.

            • October 10, 2012, 12 Noon
            • Shakespeare Theater, The Harman
            • 610 F Street NW
            • Washington, DC 20004
            • Free

            Could You Dream What I Dream (for violin and piano) was performed by Nicholas Currie and Diana Greene:

            • Monday, September 10, 2012, 7 PM
            • McDaniel College
            • McDaniel Lounge
            • 1 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157
            • 410-848-7000 for details.
            • Free and open to the public

            Garth was privileged to be asked to work with Amit Kumar on the music for the film Hardwater which was premiered at the Maine International Film Festival on July 21st and 22nd.

            • July 22, 2012, 3:30
            • Waterville Opera House
            • Common Street
            • Waterville, ME 04901

            • July 21, 2012, 6:30 PM
            • Railroad Square Cinema
            • 17 Railroad Square
            • Waterville, Maine 04901

            The Battle from The Battle Cry: A tragedy was performed by the Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County at the World Choir Games.
            • July 8, 2012, 5:15
            • Holy Trinity Parish Norwood
            • 2420 Drex Avenue
            • Cincinnati, OH 45212

            Drummer Hodge from The Battle Cry: A tragedy was performed by the Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County at the World Choir Games.
            • July 7, 2012, 1:15 PM
            • National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
            • 50 East Freedom Way
            • Cincinnati, OH 45202

            The Battle from The Battle Cry: A tragedy was performed by the Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County as part of the World Choir Games.
            • July 6, 2012, 2:45 PM
            • Corbett Center
            • University of Cincinnati
            • Cincinnati, Ohio 45221

            Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County performed Garth Baxter's cantata The Battle Cry: A Tragedy.

            • Sunday, May 13th, 2012, 7:00 PM
            • McDaniel College
            • 1 College Hill
            • Westminster, MD 21157

            Could You Dream What I Dream (for Violin and Piano) received its world premier by Nicholas Currie and Diana Greene; and pianist Ruth Rose played Resistance and Romance Without Words.

            • April 21, 2012, 7:30 PM
            • An die Musik
            • 409 North Charles Street
            • Baltimore, MD 20201

            Garth Baxter's song cycle Two Songs of Reflection was performed by Katherine Keem and Andrew Stewart.

            • Sunday, December 18, 2011, 5:30 PM
            • OperaBelle's Magical Holiday Concert at An die Musik
            • 409 North Charles Street,
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            Garth Baxter's piano work Resistance was danced to by Effervescent Collective.

            • Friday Novemember 18, 2011, 7:30 PM
            • The Theatre Project
            • 45 West Preston Street,
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            Baritone Jason Buckwalter and Pianist Andrew Stewart performed Garth Baxter's Romance Without Words for solo piano and selected art songs.

            • Saturday October 22, 2011, at 7:30 PM
            • Autumn Sounds at the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall,
            • 514 North Charles Street,
            • Baltimore, MD 21201

            The Ross-Burgess Flute and Piano duo played The Silver Run.

            • Saturday, May 21, 2011 8 PM
            • The Barn at Minchinhampton
            • High Street
            • Stroud
            • Glouchester, GL69BN
            • England

            Elitza Harbova gave the world premier performance of A Romance Without Words.

            • Sunday, May 8, 2011 7 PM
            • Casal Palocco
            • Rome, Italy