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Kevin Baldwin, DMA, MFA, is a composer, saxophonist, and interdisciplinary artist who challenges artistic traditions through experimental techniques, technologies, and conceptual practices. As a saxophonist and composer, Baldwin uses extended techniques and non-traditional notation systems to create sonic experiences utilizing noise and microtonalities, ranging from highly structured to freely improvised. These experimentations expanded into other interdisciplinary and collaborative projects, including painting, installations, film, and dance.
Baldwin has received awards and residencies as a composer, including Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, GE. He has also been a featured saxophonist in solo and chamber settings in select venues, from New York’s Symphony Space to the Beijing Normal University in China. The New York Times has called his performance “…precise and energetic…” Recently, pianist Anne Goldberg-Baldwin’s debut album Permutations featured Baldwin’s composition Broken Language, and his work body and… and… was featured on Leanna Keith’s solo bass flute album body of breath.
Baldwin has collaborated on multimedia projects as composer and producer, including numerous dance films invited to international festivals, receiving a Critics’ Choice Award at the Tagore International Film Festival in 2020. Additional projects have received grants and funding through the Judy Center for Applied Research Grant and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His recent works have been featured across Boston: MassArt X Sowa exhibited Farm to AI-Table, and his intermedia collaboration with Kledia Spiro, Drawing in Air, was featured at the Kingston Gallery.
In addition to teaching composition at The Rivers School Conservatory, Baldwin is also an Assistant Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music.