Between 1983 and 1989 he continued to perform in theatre and dance as actor and musician with the Performing Ensemble and the Hartford Contemporary Dance Ensemble, became a choir director at a Baptist Church in Hartford, worked with Nubian Nation from 1991 to 1993; with Orchestra Espada from 1989 till 1996; with Mike DiRubbo Quartet; the Explorers Quintet with trombonist Steve Davis, Mixashawn Quartet.
Parran, Houston Person, Roseanne Vitro, and with Hartford musicians including Paul H. Brown, Nat Reeves, Norman Gage, and Mario Pavone.
He placed in the top 25 of the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition and was nominated for Advocate’s Best of Hartford Keyboardist 8 times between 1994 and 2002.
Bakker* Featuring Warren Byrd - Rejected Scripts (CD, Album) Maarten Bakker 2019 Saskia Laroo - Trumpets Around The World (Cd, vinyl album) Laroo Records 2020 Warren Byrd - Truth Raised Twice (CD) Laroo Records / Byrdspeak Productions (re-release) 2020: India (World Jazz Fest in Mumbai and Goa), the Netherlands, the US 2019: Burundi (Dutch Kings Day), the Netherlands, Thailand (Krabi Naga Fest), the US 2018: the Netherlands, the US, Vietnam (Dutch Kings Day, 45 year relations Holland-Vietnam 2017: Serbia (Dutch Kings Day), South Korea, the Netherlands, the US 2016: Belgium, China Tour, Croatia Tour, France, India Tour, Indonesia tour, the Netherlands, the US.
Cape Cod, MA; Carlyle, PA) 2014: Germany, the Netherlands, Poland (Jelenia Gora Jazzfest), the US (a.o.
2007: Austria (Steyr Jazzfest), Brazil, China, Croatia (festivals Osijek , Histria), India(2 tours: Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Pune), Italy (Lucca Donna Jazz Fest), Netherlands, Poland(Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa), Ukraine, Russia, South Africa (Cape Town Jazzfest), Swiss (Montreux Jazzfestival), Taiwan, Thailand (Bangkok Festivals), the US (Rochester Jazzfest / Parkville Bluesfest/Montreux-Atlanta Jazzfestival) 2006: Belgium, Croatia (Jazzfestivals Zadar & Losinj), France, Italy (Women Jazz series), Germany, Nepal (Garden of Dreams Jazz Affair), the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia (Festival Lent), Swiss (Montreux Jazzfestival), the US.