BARBARA BAIRD

Barbara Baird has been a member of the University of Oregon music faculty since 1988, teaching organ, harpsichord, and piano. She is director of Music Ministries at First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon. An active recitalist since 1971, she has performed throughout the United States as well as Argentina, Brazil, Europe and Australia. A frequent adjudicator and clinician, she regularly conducts workshops and masterclasses for keyboardists, particularly on Baroque and Classical Period Performance, and Keyboard Pedagogy. She has been a presenter and recitalist at both national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and for the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, the Organ Historical Society, the Historical Keyboard Society, several chapters of the American Guild of Organists, and for piano teachers’ guilds in the United States and Australia. She currently has four CDs available: Vienna: Two Centuries of Harpsichord Music (1600–1800), The Organ Mass: Selections from Bach’s Klavierübung and Couperin’s Convent Mass, Pastorale, Partite, and Preludes at the Point, works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Organ Works for Two, featuring Julia Brown and Barbara Baird, organ duo.