Barbara Becker composer

Barbara is an award-winning, commissioned composer. She was composer in residence in 1993 at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where her musical narrative, “I Am Not Virginia Woolf,” was performed by faculty. She has been the on-going composer-in-residence for the Contra Costa Chapter of the Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC) and, for many years was the columnist on improvisation for MTAC's state magazine. Additionally, she is listed in Maurice Hinson's, Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire (Alfred) as a composer of 20th and 21st-century piano music.

Barbara Becker and music have been together since her earliest childhood. By age four, she had spontaneously begun playing by ear and arranging nursery rhymes on the piano. It was discovered she had been born with perfect pitch. Private lessons continued through high school; summers at the prestigious National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan; a regular at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts. Admission to the Conservatory at Oberlin College in Ohio started her college career which ended at Roosevelt University in Chicago.