Music
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

Selections from Garth Baxter's anti-war cantata The Battle Cry: A tragedy will be performed by the Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County at the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, Ohio which takes place between July 4-14, 2012. (More specific information will follow as exact times and place is known.)

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

  • Sunday, May 13th, 2012, 3:00 PM
  • McDaniel College
  • 1 College Hill
  • Westminster, MD 21157

Recent Performances

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

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

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

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

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

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