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Bowers Program Artist

James Baik

Cello
Baik - Headshot - PC Sherin Lainez
Sherin Lainez

Winner of the 2023 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, cellist James Baik is a YCA Jacobs Fellow and is managed worldwide by Young Concert Artists. Recent performances include those with the Colburn Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Brevard Music Center, the Riverside Symphony, and the Mobile Symphony. This season, he will debut with the Greenwich Symphony, the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra, and the Kansas City Symphony. An active chamber musician, James is a member of the Galvin Cello Quartet. Recent chamber music performances include the Ravinia Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and Newport Classical. Baik holds a bachelor’s degree from the Colburn Conservatory of Music and is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma with Clive Greensmith. He currently plays a G.B. Guadagnini cello on generous loan.

He will join CMS’s Bowers Program in fall 2027.