About Us

Welcome to Baby Loves Baroque!
We’re so glad you’re here!

Hi! My name is Alice Chuaqui Baldwin and I’m a classical musician who wants to convince you that classical music is totally awesome. No, really!

I’m also here to help you start an amazing journey into classical music with your kids. My one-year-old son, Little M, and I work together to find classical music, specifically early music (What’s “early music”? Find out here.), that your children and you will enjoy. Every piece of music that appears on this blog has to be approved first by Little M and if he doesn’t like it, it doesn’t get posted!

I believe that classical music, with its complex and emotional nature, is an important part of the musical education of young children. While the typical music aimed at kids can be great, too, I’m convinced there’s so much more amazing music out there worth exploring with babies, toddlers, and other young kids. Little M and I are on a mission to find the best Baroque music on the internet and share it with you!

So thank you for joining us! We hope you enjoy your classical music adventure!

About Me

Alice is originally from Wyoming and holds a doctorate in harpsichord performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In addition to Baby Loves Baroque, she also runs the blog Musical Quest(ions), which is about early music and historical performance practice.

Alice is a member of the early music ensemble Innominatum and performs as a continuo player, pianist, and organist in North America and abroad. Most notably, she served as a continuo artist and soloist at the Oregon Bach Festival from 2014–2016, performing with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Masaaki Suzuki, Rachel Podger, Matthew Halls, Monica Huggett, Craig Hella Johnson, and Helmuth Rilling.

She is a frequent guest artist with the Salt Lake City early music ensemble HeArt Music and has worked as part of the continuo team for the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, as well as attended the Juilliard at the Piccola Accademia di Montisi program, the American Bach Soloists Academy, and the Tafelmusik Winter Institute. In 2019 she was the harpsichordist for the National Flute Association Conference, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and she performed at the 2014 Berkeley Early Music Festival with the ensemble Arethusa Musica.

Alice is also an avid supporter of new music and has premiered and performed 21st- and 20th-century works by various composers on both piano and harpsichord. Her most recent premiere was a solo harpsichord piece—Triptych of Life—by her husband, composer and tenor Nic Chuaqui, who is a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music. Nic’s music can be heard at www.nicolaschuaqui.com/.