Larry J. Barnes, Composer and Pianist
Larry Barnes is currently professor of music and Bingham Fellow for excellence in teaching at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the Eastman School.
His compositions have been featured on contemporary music programs in Barcelona, Brussels, Darmstadt, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Memphis, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, and numerous other locations. His Solar Winds won the Cleveland Orchestra Composition Award. His Morning Gigue was recorded by the Slovak Radio Symphony and released on compact disc in 1998. Commissions include music for Bertram Turetsky, Marilyn Mason, the Cincinnati Composers’ Guild, Kentucky Music Teachers’ Association, and Sine Nomine Singers. Barnes is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship, two Kentucky Arts Council awards, and the Howard Hanson Prize. His music is published by Southern and SEE-SAW Music Corporations. In 1992 Barnes toured Ireland as an Al Smith Award recipient. In 2001 he participated in a Council for International Educational Exchange tour of China as part of his study of non-Western traditional music. He is currently composing music for a pilot series for Florida Public Television.
Barnes has also maintained a strong performance career. He joined the Eastman Wind Ensemble for a performance of music by Hanson, Schwantner and Copland at Lincoln Center and for a subsequent recording on the Phillips label. He has performed solo recitals in Cleveland, at the Luzerne Music Center in Lake Luzerne, New York, in San Antonio and in Lexington. Barnes has performed his own works at numerous conferences and festivals and has worked extensively with inside-the-piano techniques. He has also performed chamber music with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Albany Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and Lexington Philharmonic.
Courses taught by Dr. Barnes at Transylvania
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