Rate My Professor Stacy Baker

Dr. Stacy Baker serves as Professor of Music - Tuba/Euphonium and Music Program Lead at Morehead State University in Kentucky. A native of Harsens Island, Michigan, she earned her B.M. and M.M. degrees summa cum laude from the University of Michigan as a James B. Angell Scholar and holds a D.M.A. with highest honors from the University of Illinois in Performance and Literature. Throughout her career, Dr. Baker has performed as Principal Tuba with the Cave Run Symphony Orchestra, Warren Symphony, and Allen Park Symphony, and as a substitute tubist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Danville Symphony, Owensboro Symphony, and Lexington Philharmonic. She is a member of the Lexington Brass Band and MSU’s Horizon Brass quintet, and a founding member of SymbiosisDuo, R.S.V.B. and JUNCTION tuba/euphonium quartets, Monarch Brass, and the Athena Brass Band. Dr. Baker has toured and recorded across the United States, Europe, and China as a soloist and ensemble member with the Brass Band of Battle Creek and Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band.

Dr. Baker's contributions to low brass performance are marked by prestigious awards, including Morehead State University’s 2016-2017 Distinguished Creative Productions Award and 2014-2015 Distinguished Teacher Award. In 2025, she and longtime collaborator Dr. Gail Robertson received the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Mary Ann Craig Focus on Women Award for their album Dreams, Dances, and Destinations. Their SymbiosisDuo, formed in 2007 to promote tuba/euphonium duo repertoire, released albums SymbiosisDuo (2009, finalist for the 2010 Roger Bobo Award for Recording Excellence in Chamber Music), Playground (2015), and Dreams, Dances, and Destinations (2025), funded in part by MSU Creative Production Grants. Additional recordings include the R.S.V.B. Tuba/Euphonium Quartet’s Fanfare and Flourish: Celebrating Women Composers (2016). Dr. Baker has premiered significant works, such as Franz Cibulka’s Concerto for Tuba Quartet and Wind Band (2002), Lucy Pankhurst’s Nightlights (2021), and double concertos by Eduardo Nogueroles (2019) and Eric Knechtges (2017). She has presented clinics at conferences including ITEA and IWBC, served on their boards of directors, co-edited the IWBC Newsletter, and authored “Making and Maintaining a Great Lip-Reed” in ArbanZone (September 2019). Additionally, she co-designed the Pro-Series Elite Practice Systems DVDs for tuba and euphonium (2013).