Barbara Lister-Sink

Dr. Barbara Lister-Sink is an American classical pianist, teacher, and global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique. A former member of the Artist Faculty of the Eastman School of Music, she has collaborated with some of the world’s most distinguished performers, composers, and chamber ensembles. She has performed with the Harvard Chamber Players, the Rochester Society for Chamber Music, and at the New Hampshire, Skaneateles, Brevard and Chautauqua summer 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 Director of the School of Music and the Music Graduate Program at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC. Her video/DVD Freeing the Caged Bird won the distinguished 2002 MTNA-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award and was praised as “A monumental work!” by Vladimir Ashkenazy.