Barbara Roberts, Piano

A finalist in the 1983 United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador Piano Competition, Barbara Roberts has performed frequently as a soloist and chamber musician. Born in Seattle, she was raised in Pasadena with the exception of five years in Paris. She earned her Bachelors of Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at Stanford University and her Masters in Music at the University of Michigan. After spending a year in Munich on a piano fellowship, she returned to California where she was on the faculty of both Stanford and the University of California at Santa Cruz. She lived in Boston for four years before moving to Vancouver in 1986. From 1987 to 1999, she took time away from public performing to be at home with her children.

Since that time, Barbara has performed as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony and has given various solo and chamber music recitals in the area, including benefit recitals for the Clark County Music Teachers Association, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Southwest Washington Center for the Arts. This year will be the seventh year she has played on the Ten Grands at the Schnitzer in Portland and the third year on the Ten Grands at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle.

Barbara serves on the board of Portland Piano International as well as the School for Piano Technology for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Vancouver. A member of the Clark County and Oregon Music Teachers Associations, Barbara maintains an active private teaching studio, and is a frequent adjudicator and accompanist in the area. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, river rafting, and spending time with her husband Don and their four grown children.