Esther Rogers Baker returns to Rochester on leave from her doctoral studies in cello performance at the Frost School of Music. Baker loves chamber music, experimental and contemporary classical music, improvisation, and is a dedicated teacher.

Her teaching career started at age 14. Since then she has worked privately with students ages 3 to 90, beginner through college level, and led groups in chamber music, improvisation, cross-arts, and string orchestra. As a teacher, she believes in the power of the question: “What does this student need?”, and works to find ways of meeting those needs in every lesson. Baker has a Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor’s from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford.

Baker is researching interdisciplinary composition and team collaboration, with hopes of creating a college curriculum in interdisciplinary facilitation and performance art.