James Baur, M.M.
	Title:	Music Instructor
	Office:	MUND 1202
	Phone:	8-8319
	E-mail:	jbaur@luc.edu

Personal Information

M.M., Northwestern University
B.A., Northwestern University

Mr.James Baur is part of a musical family: his father is a composer, his mother a flutist. Born in 1976, he was constantly exposed to a variety of musical styles. After beginning his musical studies on the violin, he turned his attention to the guitar at the age of 12. Throughout high school in Memphis, Tennessee he studied with the prominent guitarist Lily Afshar. 

In 1998, he received his Bachelors degree and in 1999 his Masters degree from Northwestern University, under the direction of Anne Waller. While at Northwestern, he was selected to perform in the master classes of Oscar Ghiglia, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco, Paul O' Dette and Scott Tenant. He is currently a Doctoral Student in Guitar Performance at Northwestern Universtiy.

He was awarded First Prize in Guitar in the 1998 Society of American Musicians Compeition. In 2000, he was selected to perform on both the Chicago Classical Guitar Society's Local Artist Showcase and The Friends of the Windows Second Saturday Concert Series, on which he was invited to perform again in 2001.

In February 2001, he premiered his father's John Baur's Etudes for Guitar and Songs of Love for Soprano and Guitar at the Imagine Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, and has performed with Ensemble Noamnesia and Northwestern University's Contemporary Music Ensemble in Chicago. In 2003 he gave World Premiere performances for Chicago composers Bjorn Berkhout and Robert McDonald, and played the electric guitar in Virgil Moorefield's Premiere performance of his ensemle work Things You Must Do To Get Into Heaven in November 2003. In March 2004 he performed fa/sil by Bjorn Berkhout at the New Music Festival at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. And he performed a solo guitar recital at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in April 2005.

Also active as a teacher, he is on the faculty of Northwestern University, Lake Forest College, Loyola University Chicago and The Music Institute of Chicago.