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Barbara E. Garrett, Composer,
received
her Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Southwest Missouri State
University in 1977 and her Masters Degree in Composition from the
University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) in 1988. While working on her
masters degree, Miss Garrett studied with Thomas W. McKenney and John
Cheetham. Her first composition mentor was Claude T. Smith and she has
also participated in a one-on-one workshop with Irving Robbin. She was
born in Springfield, Missouri. She grew up in the Midwest and comes from
a family of musicians. She started making up melodies at age 3 and 49
years later, she is residing in Independence, Missouri still writing new
music. Her works have been performed by the ISO, the Northland Symphony
and double reed students at UMC. She has been commissioned to compose a
symphonic poem using sections of the requiem mass, “Requiem for Battered
Souls”, in honor of all those whose lives have been touched by violence,
abuse and other traumatic events. Miss Garrett has endeavored to capture
in her original music the full range of emotions experienced by those
whose lives have been touched by violence. Besides composing, she is
principal bassoonist with the Independence Symphony Orchestra (ISO),
legal secretary with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and a dress designer.
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