芭芭拉McCargar

Barbara Witham McCargar's performing career has spanned over four decades, from 音乐al 戏剧艺术歌曲独奏会. As a soloist, she has given many recitals in concert halls and churches in addition to having been a featured singer with the Grand Rapids Symphony Pops, the Kalamazoo and Calvin College Oratorio Societies, Lansing Lyric Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys, St. 塞西莉亚音乐 Center (formerly SCM Society), the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, Lake Michigan College, Western Michigan University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the College 音乐协会.

Numerous productions for Circle Theatre and Youth Opera USA with composer Sanford Jones, Spectrum Theater, GR Civic Theater, Frederik Meijer Gardens, DeVos Hall, Blue Lake Fine 艺术 Camp, the Dominican Center at Marywood, Holy Family 教堂 of the Nazareth Center, Kalamazoo, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary 艺术 are just some of the regional venues where her soprano voice has been heard. Ms. 麦卡加参观了 Austria and Hungary, recorded a CD, and performed in concerts as a member and soloist 与大急流城室内合唱团合作. 她录制了CD《十大赌博登录官网》(2005) for soprano and piano, at River City Studios, Ltd. 从年度讲座演变而来 recitals with her colleagues on the campus of Aquinas during Women's History Month. It includes songs for solo voice and piano by Larsen, Price, Moore, Beach, Glickman, 和王. Fellow faculty members performing on the CD are accompanist and piano soloist, 玛丽赫德和钢琴家凯瑟琳威廉姆斯，O.P.演奏勒内的延伸作品 分别是雅克和莉莉·布朗热.

Her three most recent CDs with the female quartet, The Hildegard Singers, are Songs from the Abbey (2012) featuring Linn Maxwell Keller as Hildegard von Bingen, "O Greenest 分支《圣歌. Hildegard of Bingen and Liturgical Chants" (2014), and "Veni, Veni Emmanuel - Christmas Carols and Chants from the Renaissance and the Middle Ages" (2015), all through Alto Productions and River City Studios, Ltd. 在众多的 concert, international medieval conference venues and churches, in July 2013, The Hildegard Singers performed the chants of Hildegard of Bingen and plainchant in concert in the 教堂 of Queen's College, Cambridge, England, and for the International Conference on St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 喀麦登校园. As a founding member of the vocal chant trio, Vox Angelica, Ms. McCargar recorded "Hildegard von Bingen - Chants of Heaven and Earth"{ (2003), performed in concerts for mid-west regional conventions of NPM and as an Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, and toured Spain and Portugal as the featured artists in 2005 with the Diocesan Choir of Grand Rapids, under the direction of Dr. 布兰登 斯宾塞. Ms . Ms .的其他录音. 麦卡加是她演唱莫顿的作品 Feldman (Wind) which debuted on air in May of 2010 and Marc Chan's I Sail'd Out To Sea (2009) for 3 voices and instruments, on the POSTCAGE project through Ogre Ogress.

Barbara is a sought after cantor, clinician and presenter on vocal technique, has presented workshops for choirs and the church cantor all over the state of Michigan, 目前是圣. 东大急流城的斯蒂芬教堂合唱团， MI. A long time member and past president of the GR Chapter of the National Association of Pastoral 音乐ians (NPM), she has presented at three regional conventions and at the 2015 National NPM Convention where she also performed with The Hildegard Singers. She is a 32 year member and former Michigan state board member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), her students having received awards at both the State 及地区海选. McCargar's other professional activities include: chairing the Classical 音乐 area for the GR Festival of the 艺术, being an active member of the Opera Grand Rapids Education Sub-committee of the Board, studying WEM - "What Every 音乐ian Needs to Know 关于 the Body" from Andover Educators - www.bodymap.org and Alexander Technique, performing as half of the duo Scintillating Sopranos, with the trio Claripiavoce (clarinet, piano and voice), all types of vocal music, most especially the songs of Women Composers, and attending performances of her former 现在全国各地的学生. Ms. 麦卡加拥有声乐硕士学位， with secondary emphasis in Opera from the 密歇根大学 in Ann Arbor as a student of Katherine Hilgenberg, with further study at the American Institute of 音乐al 在奥地利格拉茨学习. She received her BM in Vocal Performance from 十大赌博正规平台在线, Grand Rapids, MI, as a student of June Law Marshall. 唐娜做了进一步的研究 Harrison (Chicago, IL) and Stanley Kolk (Grand Rapids). 她曾在蓝湖教书 Fine 艺术 Camp, Grand Rapids Community College, Jordan College, Cornerstone University (formerly GR Baptist College), Western Michigan University and for GRPS. 她开始 teaching on the campus of 十大赌博正规平台在线 in 1987, became the 音乐 Chair in 1995, and currently holds the position of Associate Professor of 音乐 and 的声音 Instructor.