“Barber is a consummate professional. Her voice has deepened into a rich, fruity sound with wonderful low notes. Her onstage assurance speaks of her many years of experience.”  
Paula Citron, Opera Canada

“An artist of great artistic range, Barber delivers these songs idiomatically and fearlessly, without operatic artifice, her attention to textual nuance exemplary.”
Joseph So, La Scena Musicale

“Kimberly Barber gave me the tools to access my artistic voice, the courage to be larger than life as a performer and helped lay the foundation for a consistent and reliable singing technique that I still apply daily”
River Guard (BMus 2017, OpDip 2018)

“Kimberly Barber gave me the tools to access my artistic voice, the courage to be larger than life as a performer and helped lay the foundation for a consistent and reliable singing technique that I still apply daily”
River Guard (BMus 2017, OpDip 2018)

“Barber is a consummate professional. Her voice has deepened into a rich, fruity sound with wonderful low notes. Her onstage assurance speaks of her many years of experience.”

Paula Citron, Opera Canada

“An artist of great artistic range, Barber delivers these songs idiomatically and fearlessly, without operatic artifice, her attention to textual nuance exemplary.”

Joseph So, La Scena Musicale

“Barber is a consummate professional. Her voice has deepened into a rich, fruity sound with wonderful low notes. Her onstage assurance speaks of her many years of experience.”

Paula Citron, Opera Canada

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Brahms Liebeslieder

Thursday, Feb 6, 2020

12 noon

Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

Adjudicator

Saturday, Feb 22, 2020

Saskatchewan Music Festival, Regina, SK

2020 Wallis Memorial Opera Competition

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Teaching

Barber Studio NATS Success!

Barber Studio NATS Success!

Nov 27, 2019

Laurier Rocks! L-R: Ben Wallace, Joey Mackey (1st prize, 1st year College Men), MacKenzie Sechi, KB, Amanda Brunk, Leslie Fagan, Wesley Harrison,...

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Singing & Self Blog

To bud or to blossom

To bud or to blossom

Dec 6, 2019

One of my students spoke of an epiphany this week in performance. She had been reflecting on the disconnect between her idea of perceived vocal “control” and what she imagined to be freedom in her singing and performing. She noted that every performance in which she felt she had done “all the right things” (thinking this must result in a feeling of vocal freedom and abandon), when she watched the video of her performance, she was crestfallen by how tight and rigid it all seemed.

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Workshops

  • What Every Musician Needs To Know About The Body
  • Finding Your Individual Voice
  • Best Voice Forward
  • Call Me Mister
  • Sounding Off, Stepping Out

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