Hear me roar

Roar (accessed on Snappa, March 2, 2023) I began teaching my inaugural EmPowering your Voice! workshops last night. These sessions have been circling around my artist-teacher brain for several years; I began a prototype of them in the first fall of the pandemic with...

We need to talk about Midori

Midori Marsh booting up backstage, Four Seasons Centre, Toronto (November 2019) So. We need to talk about Midori. A quick bio: Midori Marsh studied in my studio at Laurier for 5 years, from 2013-2018. She then went on to do her Masters at my alma mater, University of...

Midori for the win!

Barber Studio alumna Midori Marsh (Laurier BMus 2017, OpDip 2018) won the Upper Midwest Regional Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and will compete in New York City in the semi-finals on April 17, 2023.

The fruits of our labours

Cast, chorus, conductor and director of KWSO La traviata, February 12, 2023 It’s always a great moment as a teacher and mentor to be able to celebrate the fruits of our collective labours. Such was the occasion last weekend, when our Laurier students took to the...

Paying it forward

Mentee and mentor: Kimberly Barber and Frederica von Stade in concert at Laurier November 2003 Mentorship. It has inspired me and lifted me up throughout my career. From my earliest days as a singer to the present day, there are “guides on the side” who...