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, Friar Alessandro,

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, Neal E. Boyd and

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Early career

Baker was born and grew up in

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, Australia. After graduating from

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in 1993, he completed a Bachelor of Music (1st class honours and University Medal) from The

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in composition and piano. After completing a PhD in composition at the

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, England, Baker spent six years (2001–2007) working as pianist and musical director of Australian vocal group,

. He toured extensively with the ensemble all over the world, particularly in the US and Europe, performing an estimated 1500 shows with them.

2007 to present

Baker settled permanently in the UK in 2007 and has been working as a record producer, arranger and orchestrator since then. Amongst many other things, he has co-produced three albums by 2009 X-Factor winner, Joe McElderry. One of those albums, ''Classic'', peaked at number 2 in the UK Albums Chart in mid-2011 and stayed in the top 5 for five weeks. Several of his produced tracks appeared on Gary Barlow's EP album, ''Sing'', which spent two weeks at number 1 in the UK Albums chart in mid-2012. He also co-produced the debut album of tenor, Noah Stewart, which spent four weeks at number 1 in the UK Classical Albums Chart in early 2012 and was nominated for 'Album of the Year' at the 2012 Classic Brit Awards.

Personal life

In 2008, Baker married Australian soprano, Kristy Swift, and they live in northwest London.

Selected discography

According to

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, Steven Baker is credited with piano, keyboards, organ, synthesiser, pipe, pedal steel, arrangement, orchestration, composition, production, engineering, cover artwork, and programming. 2004: * ''Larger Than Life'' (The Ten Tenors). Songwriter, arranger, pianist. 2006: * ''Here's to the Heroes'' (The Ten Tenors). Arranger, pianist. 2007: * ''Rejoice'' (Katherine Jenkins). Arranger. * ''A New World'' (Will Martin). Arranger. 2008: * ''Nostalgica'' (The Ten Tenors). Arranger. * ''Only Men Aloud!'' (Only Men Aloud!). Arranger. * ''Sacred Arias'' (Katherine Jenkins). Arranger. 2009: * ''Pulse'' (Toni Braxton). Orchestrator. * ''An American Dream'' (Neal E. Boyd). Arranger. * ''Wonderland'' (Faryl Smith). Arranger. * ''Band of Brothers'' (Only Men Aloud!). Arranger. 2010: * ''Cinema Paradiso'' (Paul Potts). Arranger. * ''Inspirations'' (Will Martin). Arranger. * ''La Voce'' (Russell Watson). Arranger. * ''Noël'' (The Priests). Arranger. 2011: * ''Daydream'' (Katherine Jenkins). Arranger. * ''La Strada'' – Songs From the Movies (Rolando Villazón). Arranger. * ''Double Platinum'' (The Ten Tenors). Producer, arranger. * ''Noah'' (Noah Stewart). Producer, arranger, pianist. * ''Classic'' (Joe McElderry). Producer, arranger. * ''Classic Christmas'' (Joe McElderry). Producer, arranger. 2012: * ''Glorious'' (Laura Wright). Producer, arranger, pianist. * ''Sing EP'' (Gary Barlow). Co-Producer, arranger. * ''Here's What I Believe'' (Joe McElderry). Producer, arranger, pianist. * ''The Voice from Assisi'' (Friar Alessandro). Songwriter, arranger.

References

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