Regina A. Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)

Regina A. Harris Baiocchi was born in Chicago and began composing when she was ten years old. She attended Roosevelt University's Chicago Musical College, completing her B.A. degree in composition in 1979. She is an author of short stories and poetry (under her pen name, Ginann), as well as a composer of works for orchestra, chorus, voice, chamber groups, and piano. Her Orchestral Suite in Three Movements was a winner in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Unisys African-American Composers Forum competition in 1992.