About Trevor Baird

    Hi my name is Trevor Baird and I have taught here at Music and Arts continuously for the past year.  I have been playing the piano for 25 years.  As a child I gained a sincere interest when I noticed how proficient my friends at church had gotten by the age of ten.  I wanted nothing more than to play at their level because it seemed like so much fun.  It also hit me that a cool confidence can arise from knowing how to play music. 

    I began to study at the Anton Irek School of music in 1999 under Michael Salazar a young Master's student who had a great ability to motivate his students.  He had a very kind approach to teaching that I try to embody each lesson.  After two years and and a solo recital, I began to study with Sandro Zaninovich.  He was the conductor of the Beverly Hills Orchestra.  His quiet and wise approach was subtley encouraging.  He was always dropping lines like:  It seems to me you really enjoy this, and that will stick with me forever.  

    In college I studied Biochemistry because my Mom is a dentist and I figured this seemed like a better idea than studying music.  I still minored in Music at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and played a semi-senior recital on the campus's lone Harpsichord.  I did learn, however, what many young people learn in college, which is that there is a simultaneous need to honor your family and study what you love. 

    Teaching at Music and Arts in the last year has taught me that a uniform approach that is fool-proof does not exist.  When a method is fool-proof, it is also inspiration-proof, spontaneity-proof, and genius-proof.  My goals for my students are certainly secondary to their, their parent's, and even their previous teacher's goals.  The fun artistic interpretation side blended with the faithful recreation of the myriad of symbols on a printed page of Bach, let's say, is where I can help most.