About Carola Baer
Carola Baer grew up in West London and moved to the US in her early 20’s. She settled in San Francisco where she began composing her own piano based material and joined her first band Process a post industrial funk/rock project with Mike Freeman and Phill Potestio. Carola has extensively experimented with vocal free-form improvisation in order to find what she believes the true or pure melody of a piece of music. In the vein of Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance, she explored and produced a number of musical expressions using ethnic melodies, wordless vocalizations and spoken sounds that resulted in the release of Story of Valerie . In the late 90’s Carola finally formed her own band called Flowers for Delia with bassist Steve Brown and guitarist Tim Foley, and began playing live in a variety of small venues around San Francisco. After relocating to Seattle in 2007, she partnered up with David Rispoli and produced a full CD titled Land of Blue. Their collaborative project was cut short when she finally returned to the UK after 20 years in the States. In 2015 back in the UK, Carola formed an alternative progressive rock band called Quiet Wish. The band was signed to Progressive Gears Music and received outstanding reviews and even standing ovations when they played, including public praise for all the songs/ material Carola wrote for the band. Unfortunately, the lads gave her no credit or recognition for this, tried to discourage her from her playing on the material she wrote, and listed all her contributions as vocalist, despite the fact that she played keyboards in the band and wrote every song they release and performed. Carola left Quiet Wish in 2019 and eventually formed a new exciting power driven band called Ruby Dawn, inviting the former lead guitarist from Quiet Wish to join her. Carola wrote 2 albums: Beyond Tomorrow, and Blood on Water, both of which received glowing reviews and genuine admiration. She worked tirelessly to secure gigs on big stages : Fusion Music without Boundaries, Nene Valley Rock Festiva; NVRF, Summers End. Their music was played internationally, and again they would receive standing ovations when they played live. Unfortunately despite all this glory and praise from fans and reviewers, the same lead guitarist started once again to be critical of her playing and song writing, wanted her to be more background even suggesting she didn’t play keyboards. Carola is a proficient and excellent keyboardist, classically trained and receives heart felt responses from anyone who hears her play live. Carola is now writing and will perform under her own name. She has a huge repertoire of completed songs, is writing new material all the time, and is now well underway in the digital recording field.
Carola Baer Teaching
Carola Baer is a musician with almost 40 years of experience composing recording and performing music in various situations: solo, duo, bands, internationally, music videos, schools and privately . She has been teaching in schools for 27 years and worked in Primary , Secondary, SEN and EAL settings, and has taught a number of different subjects . She has run after school clubs, choirs, student led bands, and has been involved in organising school plays, musicals, assemblies and talent shows.
Carola still teaches part time and tutors individuals 1 to 1 and in small groups for private lessons: Piano, Guitar, Singing, Expression, Song writing, Performance and Dance, as well as academic lessons in Maths, Reading Creative Writing and expression, all necessary for confidence building, development and success.