Caleb Bailey

Caleb Bailey is a guitarist and music educator from San Antonio, TX. He believes that music is meant to be shared, and his lifelong goal is to bring music to people who may not otherwise have access to it in a way that is approachable, meaningful, and healing. He is currently pursuing a doctorate of musical arts from Arizona State University as well as a certificate in music entrepreneurship where he is the teaching assistant to Dr. Martha Masters, holds a master’s degree in guitar performance and pedagogy from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University where he was the graduate assistant to Dr. Thomas Viloteau, and a bachelor’s of music degree with a concentration in music education and guitar performance from The University of Texas at San Antonio.

He has substantial experience as an educator through his work teaching music in a variety of settings, including while being affiliate faculty at the Loyola University of Maryland, as a teaching artist at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Peabody Fret Fest, D.C. Strings, Austin Classical Guitar’s (ACG) Juvenile Detention Program, Guitar San Antonio, a retirement community in Baltimore, several public schools where he lead guitar classes, taught private lessons, consulted guitar programs,, and UT San Antonio String Project after-school music program as the assistant director where he taught and conducted guitar ensembles. His students have obtained positions in the ACG Youth Orchestra, won prizes in competitions including the San Antonio Summer Fest Youth Division Competition, Texas State Solo and Ensemble, the Texas Young Masters programs, and have been awarded a scholarship to pursue music in higher education at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Outside of his solo performance career, he enjoys collaborating with other artists and premiering new music. He has performed as a member of the chamber group The Raven Trio, the award-winning rock band SquidHouse, and The Spirit of San Antonio Marching Band. In addition, he has also worked as a session artist, where he recorded for Ashna Pathan’s musical “Senior Year Is Gonna Kill Me!”, Leaf’s rap album “Art By Leaf”, and 777s’ rock album “Computer Soul.” He’s had the privilege to perform in unique spaces, including the Randolph Air Force Base, AlamoDome, Tobin Center, Berkeley United Methodist Church, South Texas Research Facility, North Oaks Retirement Community, Methodist Hospital, Leith Symington Griswold Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, and Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall. In the fall of 2022, he completed a residency with El Paso Pro Musica. During this program, he toured the city performing concerts, teaching masterclasses at UT El Paso, and providing workshops with the Raven Trio. As an avid proponent of new music he has premiered works by Matthew Dunne, Michael Keplinger, Matt Bacon, Ashley Lucero, and Fabian Beltran. 

Beyond the traditional environments of teaching and performing, Caleb has extended his career into the field of arts in health. For two years, he was the Musician in Residence at North Oaks Retirement Community in Baltimore. While there, he performed for the residents on a bi-weekly basis in both the independent and assisted living facility; held public practice sessions; and taught monthly classes on different musical subjects. He also performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for Peabody Institute’s program ‘Music for a While’: a program that lifts the spirits and reduces stress for patients, visitors, and hospital staff, enhancing the environment of care at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is currently working as the Artist in Residence Coordinator, at Mirabella at ASU where he leads a cohort of 4 doctoral students in best arts in health practices as they engage in musical activities with the residents. As the capstone to his certificate in music entrepreneurship from ASU he  is also working on creating a non-profit called Generations in Harmony that creates more artists in residence positions by pairing university music programs with retirement communities to simultaneously relieve the loneliness epidemic while creating accessibility to higher education.