Artist description Pianist

Music Style Classical

Artist History Barbara Rowan, currently on the piano faculty of the University of North Carolina, has made a lively career as soloist and chamber musician as well as teacher. Her specialties in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken her throughout the United States, to Berlin, Paris, Austria, and Sweden. She has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, with festival, community, and university orchestras. Venues have included New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, the Lincoln Center Library, the Boston Atheneum, and the San Francisco Opera House, as well as many university campuses. She has performed at national conferences of the American Liszt Society, the College Music Society, and the Darius Milhaud Society in Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Rowan has served previously on the faculties of Mills College in Oakland, California, where she earned the Bachelor of Arts and the Master of Arts degrees in music, the Eastern Music Festival, and Duke University. A Fulbright recipient, she studied composition at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris. Her principal teachers were Egon Petri and Alexander Libermann in piano, and Darius Milhaud and Leon Kirchner in composition. In addition, she has studied with pianist and teacher Edna Golandsky in New York.

Instruments Piano

Press Reviews ". . . pianist of exceptional skill and vitality." --The New York Times. ". . . versatile pianist in recital . . . unusual spirit from true atmospheric delicacy to full-voiced romantic warmth . . . brilliant, exciting, playful virtuosity and absorbing meditations." --San Francisco Examiner.

Location Chapel Hill, NC - USA

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