Michael Conway Baker is a Canadian composer and music educator of American birth.
Education
Subsequently, Baker studied music at the University of British Columbia where he was a pupil in music composition with teachers Jean Coulthard and Elliot Weisgarber. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1966, he eventually pursued graduate studies at Western Washington University where he earned a Masters of Music in 1972.
Career
He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1970 and has resided more or less continuously in the Vancouver area since. After self-teaching basic music theory as a child, Baker moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958 at which time he began formal piano studies. He has composed for the National Ballet of Canada, Fanfare to Expo "86 in Vancouver, many feature films and television series including several episodes of Road to Avonlea.
In 1997, Baker was awarded the Order of British Columbia.
Michael Conway Baker was inducted into the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame in November, 2006 with a star on the sidewalk in Vancouver, British Columbia just like his father, comedian Philosophy Baker has on the sidewalk in Hollywood, California. Within the Canadian music circles, he is somewhat well known for having composed Vancouver Variations, used as the theme music for the Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio 2 morning request program Here"s to You. Internationally, his music is known for Dorothy Hamill"s Ice Capades full length ice-ballet Cinderella: Frozen in Time which toured North America and China for 5 years.
Besides that highly popular soundtrack album, he has seven albums entirely of his music as well as having works on many other cds.