Andrea C. Baker currently serves as the Instructor of Double Reeds at Georgia Southern University and also holds the positions of principal bassoon with Opera in the Ozarks and second bassoon with the Richmond Symphony in Indiana. Previously, she held the positions of assistant principal/second bassoon with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in Bosnia and Herzegovina and second bassoon with the New England Philharmonic. She was the 2021 winner of the University of Cincinnati wind concerto competition, and the 2017 winner of the Boston Woodwind Society Sherman Walt Merit solo competition. An avid chamber performer, her groups have been invited artists at the 2019 Stellenbosch Chamber Music Institute as well as at the 2018 Australasian Double Reed Society conference. She earned her DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and her Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Penn State University, and her teachers include WIlliam Winstead, Richard Svoboda, Daryl Durran, and Shirley Curtiss.