Barbara Barber is Assistant Professor of Violin and Director of the Suzuki Pedagogy Program at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. She was the founder and for 16 years the Coordinator of the Suzuki String Program at Texas Tech University in Lubbork. International known as a concert violinist, recording artist, clinician, publisher, editor and author, she has concertized and given clinics at conferences, institutes and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Australia, Korea and Ireland. She is a Registered Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and has served on its board of directors as well as coordinator of various conferences. Her series of books, cassettes and CD's entitled Solos For Young Violinists, and book, Scales For Advanced Violinists, are distributed by Summy-Birchard Inc. She has published a number of articles in American Suzuki Journal and American String Teacher and served as editor of the Private Teachers Forum of AST as well as advisor to the Texas University Interscholastic League and the National Federation of Music Clubs. |