ANNOUNCING OUR FEATURED PRESENTERS AT COLORADO MUSIC EDUCATORS CONFERENCE 2012

Barbara Barber

THURSDAY ONLY

12:15-1:05 p.m. Clinic Crystal Room (Main) Splendid Spiccato

Barbara Barber, Violinist and Violist, Pedagogue, Editor and Author, Clinician

Presiding: Liz Dinwiddie, Director of Instrumental and Early Childhood Studios at

Parlando School for the Arts, Boulder
Sponsored by: Alfred Music and Colorado ASTA

Playing a Mozart concerto with an accomplished spiccato begins with the student’s first lesson! Beginning with the basics of a relaxed, flexible bow hold and the introduction of a loose detaché and collé, teachers will learn the basics of the spiccato stroke and its variants – collé, piqué, ricochet, sautille and saltando – for violinists and violists. Using the Suzuki literature and supplementary pieces, we will explore these assorted techniques, learning how to introduce them to students in the early books and continue their effective development through the repertoire.

2:45-3:35 p.m. Clinic Jones Room, Golf Club Tune It or Die!

Barbara Barber, Violinist and Violist, Pedagogue, Editor and Author, Clinician

Presiding: Dr. Margaret Berg, Associate Professor of Instrumental/String Music Education, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sponsored by: Alfred Music, Colorado ASTA

Using Barber’s book, Violin Fingerboard Geography, Volume 1, the fundamentals of intervals, theory, shifting, double-stops and chords are discussed. Their use is demonstrated with emphasis on teaching excellent intonation from beginning through advanced literature.

Violinist and violist Barbara Barber is internationally known as a recording artist, pedagogue, publisher, consultant, adjudicator, editor and author. She has concertized and presented at conferences, institutes and workshops across the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Sweden and Bermuda. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. She received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in violin performance from Texas Tech University and also studied at Interlochen Music Camp, Rocky Ridge Music Center, Accademia di Chigiana in Italy, Taos School of Music and Banff Centre. Her teachers have been Josephine McAndrew, Rosemary Malocsay, James Barber, Angel Reyes and Sidney Harth. Barber has taught violin and violin pedagogy at Texas Tech University, Texas Christian University, and the University of Colorado in Boulder. Active in the American String Teachers Association and the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Barbara Barber has been recognized for her many articles, presentations and roles on advisory and editorial boards. She was Chair of the Violin Committee for the revision of the 2003 ASTA String Syllabus and is a Registered Violin Teacher Trainer and past board member of the SAA. Her 28 books and CDs — Solos For Young Violinists, Solos For Young Violists, Scales For Advanced Violinists, Scales for Advanced Violists, Twinkle Variations Festival Arrangement and Fingerboard Geography — are published by her company, Preludio Music Inc., distributed exclusively by Alfred Publishing Company and are sold worldwide. She has also released a CD with Brian Lewis and Michael McLean entitled Care To Tango? (Oak Cliff) and has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Boulder Bach Festival, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia of Colorado, Estes Park Music Festival and Longmont Symphony. From 1999 to 2007, Barber served as Artist Teacher in Violin at Boulder Arts Academy; she now maintains a private studio in Estes Park and Longmont with Longmont Suzuki Strings. She lives in Estes Park with her husband James and grandson Tyrin.

Barbara Barber has more than 35 years of teaching experience working with students of all ages and has traveled extensively during recent years, performing solo and chamber music concerts and conducting numerous violin and viola pedagogy clinics and courses for teachers and teaching students at conferences, workshops and institutes. She has made nine trips to Brazil where she has she has conducted courses for hundreds of teachers, worked with countless students and performed many recitals. Recent lecture-recitals and clinics have taken her to the American String Teachers Association Conferences in Columbus, Dallas, Reno and Albuquerque, the Suzuki Association of the Americas Conferences in Minneapolis, the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio, the Nevada Music Teachers National Association Conference at the University of Nevada, the University of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the Florida Music Educators Association Convention in Tampa, the Longy School of Music in Boston, the Community Music School in Philadelphia, the Montana Music Educators Association Convention in Bozeman, the Music Institute of Chicago, St. Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, New Zealand and the New Jersey ASTA conference at New Jersey City University. Barber’s former students include many professional teachers and performers as well as engineers, medical professionals and scientists. They have attended universities and conservatories such as Texas Tech University, Texas Christian University, University of Texas, University of North Texas, Baylor, Southwestern, Trinity, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado College, Vanderbilt, Florida State, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, West Point, Yale, Tufts, Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin, Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard and Eastman School of Music.
(from Longmont Suzuki Strings website)