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Thomas Baird is the co-director of Apollo’s Banquet, a New York City-based Baroque dance and music ensemble. For ten years he directed the annual East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University. Mr. Baird is a regular guest lecturer at The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. He is a faculty member of the Opera Division at the State University of New York at Purchase where he teaches Movement Styles for Singers and choreographs the opera productions.

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