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 Carola wrote for this band. She decided to leave Quiet Wish in 2019 due to their issues of control and criticism of the music she wrote for them. After a 3 year search for like minded musicians, she 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 for this band: 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 public praise for their live performances and standing ovations. Unfortunately issues arose, so Carola left this band to follow an independent musical career. Carola is a proficient and excellent keyboardist, classically trained and has been playing keys for over 50 years. Her lyrics and songs are powerful and she always receives positive praise from anyone who hears her perform or listens to her music. She is now writing and will performing under her own name and has a magnificent repertoire of completed songs, as well as writing new material all the time. Carola hopes to be able to collaborate with others again, but currently is focusing on digital recording using Ableton software, and hopes to release a solo produced album in the near future.
Carola Baer Teaching
Carola Baer is a musician with almost forty 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.