Renée Baker is founding music director and conductor of the internationally acclaimed Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (CMOP), a polystylistic orchestral organization that grew from the plums of classical music as well as jazz. 

A visual artist, film artist, composer and recontextualist, Ms. Baker is a true engineer of multidisciplines. Layering movement and film projections of real and imagined things, she creates exquisite film arenas of surrealistic activity within a sonic theatre.

Her compositions are crafted of her many talents with carefully constructed environments that also allow indeterminacy, experimentalism, classicism, subjectivity, and objective interpretations to co-exist. Intense but rewarding for both performer and listener/viewer; all parties are cast into unknown roles upon encounter, to be radically inside a temporary environment of limitless inhabitation.

Ms. Baker is a member of the world renowned collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Critical acclaim for her graphic score novels has come from performances in Berlin, Poland, London, Scotland, and as far reaching as Vietnam.