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Her compositional style is highly influenced by the landscape, culture and musical heritage of Scotland.[1] She is Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Delaware. Her music has been recorded on the Naxos Records, Composers Recordings Inc., New World Records, Albany Records, Meyer Media and PnOVA Recordings labels. She is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser Company, Vanderbeek & Imrie Ltd., Southern Percussion and McKenna-Keddie Publishing.[2]Biography[edit]Raised in Blanefield, Stirlingshire, Barker studied composition with Scottish composer, John Maxwell Geddes at the University of Glasgow (B.Mus. Hons.), before crossing the Atlantic for graduate studies with American Pulitzer prize-winning composers Melinda Wagner and George Crumb at Syracuse University (M.M.) and the University of Pennsylvania (A.M., Ph.D.) respectively. She also worked with British composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir on the 1992 Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Young Composers Course in Orkney, and with American composers Daniel Strong Godfrey and Jay Reise. In 2021 she was named the recipient of the Delaware Division of the Arts Masters Fellowship for Artistic Excellence and Service to the State.[3] Further awards in composition include the 2022 Miriam Gideon Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music, winner of the 2022 New Ariel Recordings Composition Competition (USA), winner of the 2018 Pi Kappa Lambda Chamber Commission (USA),[4] the 2007 Individual Artist Established Fellowship for Artistic Excellence by the Delaware Division of the Arts and Delaware State Arts Council, [2] winner of the 2006 Rel\u00e2che (musical group) Philadelphia Commissions Project (USA), winner of the 1996 Cambridge Contemporary Music Festival Composition Competition (UK), winner of the 1993 Helen L. Weiss Music Prize for Composition awarded by the University of Pennsylvania (USA), finalist in the 1998-99 AUROS Group for New Music Composition Competition (USA), and finalist in the 1993 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers Award (UK). Barker has also received two awards, in 2019 and 2020, from The American Prize.As a pianist, she studied with Lawrence Glover, Gustav Feny\u00f6 and Anne Crawford at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and with George Pappastavrou at Syracuse University and Gary Spielstead, of The University of Western Ontario, Canada. She studied violin with J. Mullen Begbie (Concertmaster of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) and Angus Andersen (Concertmaster of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra), and oboe with Phillip Hill (Principal Oboist with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra).[5] As a young pianist Barker won many awards at the Edinburgh Competition Festival and Glasgow Music Festival, most notably the ECF\u2019s 1983 William Townsend Memorial Senior Medal, the 1979\/1981\/1982 Norma Dalziel Chamber Trophies, and the 1977 Marion P. Gibb Prize. She was also awarded the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music\u2019s 1979 Lindsay Lamb Memorial Bursary.She is related through her aunt to British abstract artist, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Her niece, Peigi Barker, is the voice of Young Merida in Pixar Animation Studios’ Brave (2012 film). Her sister-in-law, Eilidh Mackenzie, is 2010 Scots Trad Music Awards Gaelic Singer of the Year and former member of Mac-Talla. Mackenzie is featured on two of Barker’s recordings: Geodha on her Nyvaigs CD [6] and T\u00ecrean c\u00e8in (Distant Shores), a multimedia crossover work.[7]Works and performances[edit]Notable amongst Barker’s catalogue is her work for children’s chorus and symphony orchestra, titled Nollaig, which has received performances from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra with the St. Louis Children’s Chorus, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with the New Jersey Youth Choirs, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra with the Virginia Children\u2019s Chorus, the Fort Collins Symphony,[8] the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra with the Central Illinois Children’s Chorus, and the Lynchburg Symphony with Cantate Children\u2019s and Youth Choir of Central Virginia.[9]Nollaig was commissioned by the Virginia Children’s Chorus with the Virginia Symphony and premiered under the baton of Wes Kenney at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA to an audience of just under 10,000 people.[10] With permission from the composer, a chamber version of this work was created by Dr. Betty Bertaux,[11] director of The Children\u2019s Chorus of Maryland, for publication on her Boosey & Hawkes choral series. Further choral-instrumental works include Harmony of Angels, commissioned and premiered by the Bearsden Choir with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Brass and Percussion, and Ealasaid, premiered by 6-WIRE and the University of Delaware Chorale at Carnegie Hall in New York.[12]Described as \u201ca haunting journey through a woman\u2019s experience of life and love\u201d,[13] Barker\u2019s song-cycle for soprano, flute and piano setting four poems by Robert Burns, titled A Lassie\u2019s Love, has been recorded on the Meyer Media LLC label. Commissioned by Scottish ensemble, Vocali3e, the creation of the work, and subsequent concert tours of the work in Scotland and America, were supported by grants from Creative Scotland, The Jean Armour Burns Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, Made in Scotland Onward Touring Fund and the Delaware Division for the Arts, USA. The work was premiered at The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayrshire, Scotland in May 2015.[9] The review of the 2016 Victoria International Arts Festival performance in Malta describes the cycle as \u201ca very beautiful song cycle, alternating from the light-hearted and flirtatious nature of a young girl to the more introspective and mature musings of an older woman\u201d.[14]Also of note in Barker\u2019s portfolio of compositions is her composition for flute and piano titled Na Tr\u00ec Peathraichean (The Three Sisters\u2026of Glencoe) which \u201cimpressionistically evoke(s) the landscape and atmosphere of three neighbouring mountain ridges in the Scottish Highlands\u201d.[15] Originally commissioned and recorded by Virginia Symphony flautist, Laurie Baefsky, for the inaugural CD release of the Meyer Media label (2000), this work has recently been recorded by award-winning international Powell Flutes artist, Alice K. Dade, for Naxos Records (2018). With a YouTube video of the first movement of the work, Gearr Aonach, reaching almost half a million views,[16] this composition has been reviewed as \u201cevocative and virtuosic at the same time\u201d;[17] \u201cimpressive\u2026a vivid landscape of colors and textures\u2026majestic\u2026richly evocative\u201d;[18] \u201cvery attractive\u201d;[19] \u201ca wonderfully atmospheric piece, denoting the gentle wind (that) rustles through the crevices and the ferns, truly evocative and haunting.\u201d[20]With undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance, Barker’s continued work as a collaborative pianist is highly evident in her writing for piano. Martin Jones (pianist) has recorded two of her three compositions for solo piano, Moana and BuMian, on the PnOVA: American Piano Music Series.[21] American pianist Kevin Robert Orr has recorded her solo piano work, Geenyoch Ballant,[22] and also performed it to critical review in America, Europe and Asia: \u201cOrr then went on to play a much more modern work by Jennifer Margaret Barker. It\u2026took full advantage of the basically percussive nature of the modern piano. There were echoes of Carl Orff, Shostakovich, Copland, and even Mahler, to be heard throughout the piece. But in the end, it was clearly Barker\u2019s own.\u201d[23]Geenyoch Ballant was written for the 2003 American Liszt Society National Conference. In addition, American composer, Melinda Wagner, engaged Barker to create the piano reduction of her 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, for publication by the Theodore Presser Company.[24]Among Barker\u2019s more Celtic-flavoured compositions are two works setting the poetry of Scottish poet and academic, Derick Thomson. The first work, Geodha, is a chamber work for string trio and timpano utilizing material from an earlier, larger work inspired by and named for Thomson\u2019s poem Geodha Air Ch\u00f9l Na Gr\u00e8ine. The second work sets the poetry of Seann Or\u00e0n within a work for flute and acoustic guitar. On Barker\u2019s Nyvaigs CD, one can hear Thomson reciting his poem, Geodha Air Ch\u00f9l Na Gr\u00e8ine, followed by Barker\u2019s setting of the poem in song, performed by Eilidh Mackenzie.[25]Discography[edit]Nyvaigs, Composer’s Recording Inc.\/New World Records, CRI862, NWCR862 (2000)Geenyoch, Meyer Media MMV01001 (2005)Golden Thread, Virginia Children’s Chorus (2005)6ixth Sense, Ting-Ting, China (2013)Excursions, Meyer Media, MM14028 (2013)PnOVA: American Piano Music Series, Volume 2, Mahin Media (2016)A Lassie’s Love, Meyer Media (2017)Living Music, Naxos 8.559831 (2018)Almost All-American: 21st Century Works for Clarinet, Albany Records TROY1788 (2019)6-Wire on 57th, Meyer Media MM21045 (2021)Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano, Volume 22, New Ariel Recordings (2022)References[edit]^ “Composer\/Pianist Jennifer Margaret Barker in concert with Caraid Tr\u00ec | Victoria International Arts Festival”. www.viaf.org.mt. Archived from the original on 2018-01-06.^ a b “Home”. jennifermargaretbarker.com.^ “2021 Individual Artist Fellowships Awardees Announced by the Delaware Division of the Arts”.^ “Commissioned Music Project | Pi Kappa Lambda”. www.pikappalambda.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-05.^ “Jennifer Margaret Barker”. britishmusiccollection.org.uk. 9 March 2017.^ “DRAM: Notes for “Jennifer Magaret Barker: Nyvaigs”“. www.dramonline.org. Retrieved 27 September 2018.^ “Jennifer Margaret Barker – YouTube”. YouTube.^ “Meyer Media, LLC – Jennifer Margaret Barker Composer”. www.meyer-media.com.^ a b “Home”. jennifermargaretbarker.com.^ The Virginian Pilot, “Children\u2019s Chorus includes an original Celtic-flavored work in yule concert”, Krys Stefansky, 17 December 1998^ “Boosey & Hawkes Composers, Classical Music and Jazz Repertoire”. www.boosey.com.^ Out & About Magazine, “A Sweet Month for Arts”, Michelle Kramer-Fitzgerald, 31 January 2019^ Musician\u2019s Union \u201cThe Musician\u201d, Spring 2018 issue, Reviews, Keith Ames & Tom Short, pg. 46^ “Composer\/Pianist Jennifer Margaret Barker in concert with Caraid Tr\u00ec | Victoria International Arts Festival”. www.viaf.org.mt. Archived from the original on 2018-01-06.^ Records International, February 2018, https:\/\/www.recordsinternational.com\/cd.php?cd=02T068. Accessed 1 August 2018.^ “Jennifer Margaret Barker”. YouTube.^ Kathodik (Italy), Luciano Feliciani, June 2018, http:\/\/www.kathodik.it\/modules.php?name=Reviews^ The Flute View, Viviana Guzman, 5 June 2018, http:\/\/thefluteview.com\/2018\/06\/alice-k-dade-album-review\/, Accessed 4 August 2018.^ Naxos Records, \u201cDavid\u2019s Review Corner\u201d, David Denton, February 2018, https:\/\/www.naxos.com\/reviews\/reviewslist.asp?catalogueid=8.559831&languageid=EN. Accessed 1 August 2018.^ Victoria International Arts Festival, \u201cComposer\/Pianist Jennifer Margaret Barker in concert with Caraid Tr\u00ec\u201d, 16 July 2016, http:\/\/www.viaf.org.mt\/composerpianist-jennifer-margaret-barker-in-concert-with-caraid-tri\/, Accessed 1 August 2018.^ “Volume 2”. www.mahinmedia.com.^ Meyer Media, “Artists”, Accessed 31 July 2018^ Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio, USA, “New Music Society program premieres work by Rollin”, Jerry Stephens, 21 February 2007^ Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, score, pub. 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