Music prof honored by ASCAP

Jennifer Barker, assistant professor of music

2:22 p.m., Oct. 13, 2004--Composer Jennifer Barker, UD assistant professor of music since 2000, has won an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for the fifth year in a row.

The ASCAP award recognizes composers whose work is most often performed.

ASCAP surveys radio stations, concert halls and other performing venues to identify which composers’ works are being performed most since musicians don’t need to get permission or even inform composers when they perform their work.

“I have had performances in the U.S., China, Sweden and Australia this year. The compositions performed last year range from solo instrumental pieces to chamber pieces to symphony pieces,” Barker said. “In the latter category, I had two performances by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and four performances by the Virginia Symphony this past Christmas.”

Barker currently is completing her second CD/DVD, “Geenyoch,” which is scheduled to be released early in 2005.

Article by Melissa Kadish, AS ’05
Photo by Kathy Atkinson

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