Barbara Lister-Sink

The 2002 recipient of the MTNA-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award, Barbara Lister-Sink has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe and has recorded for NPR, the CBC and Radio Netherlands as well as for the Well-Tempered, Philips, Emergo and Music & Arts labels. As artistic collaborator, she has appeared with principal players of most major American and Dutch orchestras, with the Cleveland, Ciompi, Chester and Alexander quartets, and members of the Fine Arts, Lenox, Muir and Guarneri string quartets. During a six-year residency in the Netherlands, Ms. Lister-Sink was keyboardist for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Notes from European critics include: "Technically as well as musically an exceedingly gifted musician;" "Played with absolute understanding, rich imagination and elegant, well-balanced musicality." The DeTijd/ Amsterdam critic wrote, "Time and again out of the crowded ranks of pianists, a few will surface hose talents cause the careers of the rest to grow pale by comparison... Barbara Lister-Sink gave the impression of belonging to such an elite. "

A graduate of Smith College, Professor Lister-Sink won the Prix d'Excellence from the Utrecht Conservatory and was finalist in the Allesandro Casagrande International Piano Competition. She has performed with the Harvard Chamber Players and at the New Hampshire, Skaneateles, Brevard and Chautauqua summer music festivals. Her piano teachers include John Duke, Edith Lateiner-Grosz and Guido Agosti. Ms. Lister-Sink has served on the Artist Faculty of the Eastman School of Music, the Amsterdam Muziek Lyceum, Duke University, and the Brevard Music Center.

Barbara Lister-Sink is also recognized as a pioneer and international leader in the field of injury-preventive keyboard technique. Her video Freeing the Caged Bird - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique, (www.freeingthecagedbird.com) has received international acclaim. Piano & Keyboard magazine called it "brilliantly conceived and produced." World-renowned concert pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy praised Ms. Lister-Sink’s work as "monumental."

Visit her professional website at http://www.freeingthecagedbird.com

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