Regina Harris Baiocchi

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Name Regina Baiocchi Role Musical Artist		Education Roosevelt University

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Regina A. Harris Baiocchi (born July 16, 1956) is an American musician, music educator, composer and writer of short stories and poetry.

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Life

Regina Harris was the third of eight children born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents Elgie Harris Jr., and Lanzie Mozelle Belmont Harris. She was exposed to the arts from an early age, took guitar lessons at age nine and began composing at ten. She studied music in high school and church music programs, and graduated from Roosevelt University with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978. She continued her studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwest University, and graduated from New York University with a certificate in public relations in 1991 and from De Paul University with a Master of Music degree in 1995.

She married Gregory Baiocchi on July 12, 1975, and worked as a composer, writer, poet and high school teacher. From 1986–89, she worked as an audio quality control analyst for Telaction Corporation, and from 1989–94 as a public relations director for Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. After 2000, she was a lecturer at East-West University.

Honors and awards

Poets and Patrons Award for Poetry for Teeter Totter, and Ghetto Child, 1980s

McDonald’s Literary Achievement Award, for Mama’s Will, 1988 *Illinois Arts Council grant, 1995

Chicago Music Association award, 1995

Art Institute of Chicago grant for Gbeldahoven: No One’s Child, 1997

National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists Program grant for African Hands, 1997

Works

Selected works include:

Sketches: for piano trio

Mama’s Will, 1988

Gbeldahoven: No One’s Child, 1997

African Hands, 1997

References

Regina Harris Baiocchi Wikipedia

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