Lin Foulk Baird is Professor of Music at Western Michigan University, where she teaches horn and performs with the Western Brass Quintet and the Western Wind Quintet. International performing invitations have taken her to Spain, Russia, China, the Netherlands, Thailand, Colombia, Honduras, and Canada. In Michigan, she often performs with the Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras. She has taught regularly at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp since 2005 and current serves on the Board of Directors for Cormont Music.

Especially interested in music with horn by women composers, Baird has performed and presented lectures on these works at numerous festivals and universities across the United States. She has recorded two solo albums of music composed by women available on Centaur Records. In 2001 she created (and continues to maintain) a website at www.linfoulkbaird.org, which lists over 2,000 works with horn by women composers. Dr. Baird received degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her principal teachers include Douglas Hill, Nancy Cochran, Laurence Lowe, and Bruce Heim.