Annual Convention

BARBARA LISTER-SINK, internationally acclaimed pianist and teacher, is a graduate of Smith College and holds the coveted Prix d’Excellence from the Utrecht Conservatory. A former member of the Artist Faculty of the Eastman School of Music, she has collaborated with some of the world’s most renowned performers, composers and in numerous music festivals. Formerly keyboardist for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, she has also taught on the piano faculties of the Amsterdam Muziek Lyceum, Duke University, and the Brevard  Music Center and is currently  Professor of Piano and Director of the School of Music at Salem College. Her teachers include Edith Lateiner-Grosz, John Duke and Guido Agosti.

As a teacher, Lister-Sink is acknowledged as a global pioneer and leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique. Her video/DVD Freeing the Caged Bird– Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique won the distinguished 2002 Music Teachers National Association-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award and was praised as “A monumental work!” by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Recently Lister-Sink was featured pedagogue for the Piano Texas/Cliburn International Academy & Festival, gave workshops and performances for the Alabama and Nebraska Music Teachers State Conferences, and was a presenter at the 2012 Music Teachers National Association Annual
Conference in New York City. 

Through her video/DVD, intensive training workshops, state and national, and international conferences, in addition to hundreds of workshops at universities, conservatories, summer institutes, AGO chapters and professional organizations, Lister-Sink has helped thousands of keyboardists from around the world remove technical obstacles to their musical development. Her performances are eloquent demonstrations of the marriage of technical freedom and musical artistry.