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Michael Barnes
Diction / Vocal Literature / Accompanying
B.M., University of Washington; M.M., Lewis & Clark College
Professional Activities
Michael Barnes has been accompanying singers since his high school days in Seattle, Washington. He has toured nationally for Community Concerts, and tours internationally as the third member of the now infamous BoZoArtZ Duo.
Barnes is the award-winning accompanist of the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus (with whom he has also appeared as vocal soloist and accordionist), Pacific Youth Choir, Bravo Vancouver, Lewis & Clark College, Portland State University and with the Old Church Society, for whom he schedules their Sack Lunch Recitals. He is the organist of Westminster Presbyterian Church and assists at Temple Beth Israel and 6th Church of Christ Scientist.
Teachers
His mentors have been Dr. Alberto Rafols (University of Washington) and Dr. Edith Kilbuck (Lewis and Clark College). He received a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance–Accompaniment in 1986. During that time he studied vocal diction with Dr. Richard Poppino. He has played for 10 years in the diction class at Portland State University taught by Rodney Menn. In addition, he has coached with Dalton Baldwin, Gwendolyn Koldofsky and with Jan Meyerowitz at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where he also attended a master class with diction expert Nico Castel.