Greg Baker

<strong>Greg Baker</strong><br />Piano accompanist. More than 45 years live on stage, studio, entertainment, correpetitor, musicals, playing at sight...ect....<br />On my musical path of life since I was 5 years I studied and practiced piano playing.<br />In that period I was taught by two piano teachers up to the age of nineteen.<br />Living for music was born in my mind in that early time of my life. So I decided after my final secondary-school examinations to audit an entrance examination at the Hochschule f&uuml;r Musik und Theater Hannover for a licentiate degree as high school teacher i.e. music and french as a functional direction. However, I quitted after two semesters and made my commercial completion as industrial business management assistant.<br />As music was and is always the heart and soul of my life, I moved then to Berlin, running different musical shows at the Berliner Kammerspiele (Rocky Horror Show [ by Richard O&rsquo;Brien ] /&nbsp; The fat pig wanted to get thin [by J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Savary]), jingle productions, several bands touring mainly in Europe.<br />At the age of 30 (1987), I realized that I won't earn my living by being an artist as a pianist.<br />I was afraid that I would start not to be anymore "in love" daily practising music to earn my living. I was really concerned that this love could turn into hate.<br />And my heart said in this time: You should protect your love for music.<br />I did so.<br />From 1988 up to 2011 I hold various commercial sales positions mostly as a head of sales &amp; marketing in several international operating companies, amongst others, Steinway &amp; Sons, Sebapharma and Hauni Maschinenbau (high speed cigarette making machines for the worldwide operating tobacco industry).<br />However, as I was very successful in these jobs at that period and furthermore I stayed always closed to practise music on the piano in my leisure time, not being aware how much I missed it as well as the deep inner desire to spend much more time of my life to it again.<br />In 1991 I got married and divorced in 2010.<br />In 2011 I moved to Hamburg Blankenese and out of my heart &amp; soul suddenly hopped out what I always wanted to do up the end of my life:<br />Music, music and nothing else but music!<br />Thanks God ;-)!!!<br />In July 2011 I founded "Greg Baker Productions" and as a conclusion concerning my " former" life as a (semi-professional) musician, I decided to go for a very professional and very disciplined pianist / organist / composer / arranger.<br />Specializing as an accompanist at the piano, composer and arranger, ) I co-operate(-d) amongst others with Tine Wittler (Lokalrunde), Eckart Breitschuh (Breitschuh singt Brel), Ren&eacute; Uyumaz (dr), Hardy Best (bs), Andrew Bryan (dr), Matthias Kraus (gt), Marcus Prell (Ratpack), Martina Rudolph (classical sopranist), Denise Norton (sopranist/musical), Jim Ferguson "Mr. Soul" (ex Hot chocolate / Les Humphries), Stefan Drews (Best of Billy Joel and Elton John)...ect.<br />With all of them I shared and still do share the happiest and fruitful moments when we are coming together either in the studio or on stage.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Greg Baker</strong> ist seit mehr als 45 Jahren national und international aktiv als Pianist, Organist (Hammond B3 / Kirchenorgel), Komponist, Korrepetitor, K&uuml;nstlerbegleiter, Keyboardist und Arranger, sei es auf der B&uuml;hne, im Studio, TV und Radio, Musicals, Kreuzfahrten u.v.m.<br /><br />Komponist und (Tour-) Begleiter am Piano u.a. von Tine Wittler's "LOKALRUNDE, Tresenlieder schl&uuml;ckchenweise", (Tour-) Begleiter am Piano von Eckart Breitschuh "Breitschuh singt BREL" plus weitere namhafte internationale K&uuml;nstler, u.a. Denise Norton (vc), Jim Ferguson (vc) , Julia Mensah (vc), Dr. Julie Silvera (vc), Andrew Bryan (dr), Hardy Best (bs), Ren&eacute; Uyumaz (dr) u.v.m.<br /><br />Nach einer erfolgreichen Karriere im internationalen Vertrieb (u.a. f&uuml;r Steinway &amp; Sons, Hamburg) fasste er 2010 den Entschluss, sich ausschliesslich der Musik zu widmen.<br />Greg Baker ist noch in viele weitere Musikprojekte aktiv involviert, unter anderem begleitet er als Pianist und Keyboarder im Rahmen von Greg Baker Productions:<br /><strong>Eckart Breitschuh</strong><br /><a href="http://www.breitschuh-singt-brel.de/">http://www.breitschuh-singt-brel.de</a><br /><strong>Tine Wittler</strong><br /><a href="http://tinewittler.de/">http://tinewittler.de</a><br /><strong>Bridget Fogle</strong><br /><a href="http://bridgetfogle.de/">http://bridgetfogle.de</a><br /><strong>Dr. Julie Silvera</strong><br /><a href="http://www.juliesilvera.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.juliesilvera.com</a><br /><strong>Nina Jiers</strong><br /><a href="http://www.ninajiers.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.ninajiers.com</a><br /><strong>David Moon</strong><br /><a href="http://www.hamburgbluesbandits.com/">http://www.davidmoon.de</a><br /><strong>Ren&eacute; Uyumaz</strong><br /><a href="http://www.rene-uyumaz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.rene-uyumaz.com</a><br /><strong>Gospelchor L&uuml;neburg</strong><br /><a href="http://www.rene-uyumaz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.gospelchor-lueneburg.de</a><br /><strong>Marcus Prell</strong><br /><a href="http://marcusprell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>https://www.marcusprell.com</u></a><br /><strong>Alexx Grimm</strong><br /><a href="http://alexander-grimm.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>http://www.alexander-grimm.de</u></a><br /><strong>Stefan Drews</strong><br /><a href="http://soulisten.de/die-musiker.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>http://www.soulisten.de/die-musiker.html</u></a><br /><strong>Alexandra von Pervulesko</strong><br /><a href="https://www.starnow.com/alexandravonpervulesko">https://www.starnow.com/alexandravonpervulesko</a><br /><br />und viele mehr.<br /><br />Von der gehobenen Klassik bis zum Free Jazz, alle erdenklichen Stilrichtungen und verf&uuml;gbaren musikalischen Bandbreiten in den Bereichen Pop, Musical, Soul, Filmmusik, Schlager, Chanson, Klassik sowie Rock sind in seinem Repertoire verankert.