 Barbara York has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 35 years as a concert accompanist, choral and theatrical music director and composer. Her score and lyrics for the Canadian musical Colette won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981. She has received commissions from two Canadian symphony orchestras, the Boise State University Symphonic Winds and the BSU Symphony Orchestra, plus numerous private groups and soloists in both the US and Canada.
She has presented pieces at three World Saxophone Congresses and at the 2003 International Double Reed Symposium. Her 50-minute scripted, children’s piece, A Butterfly in Time, was recently recorded to CD and was nominated for a Juno Award in 2006. Her first tuba piece, Sea Dreams, was on the required repertoire list for the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s 2004 Young Artists Competition. Conversations, for euphonium and alto saxophone, won the Harvey Phillips Award for euphonium in chamber music at the 2006 International Tuba – Euphonium Congress.
As an accompanist, Barbara has played at universities and concert venues throughout the United States and Canada, has recorded for CBC Radio, and has premiered numerous works for other composers at International congresses. Barbara lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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