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Elizabeth Prielozny Barnes |
"...a wonderfully gifted musician, highly skilled in musical craft, inventive, inquisitive, energetic and engaging..." |
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A native of Chicago, Elizabeth Prielozny Barnes is known equally for her accomplishments as an orchestra conductor, and for her extraordinarily innovative views of how to use the arts within the community. She is currently Music Director for the 3M Orchestra, and most recently also served as Orchestra Director at the College of St. Catherine and Artistic/Education Director for Young Audiences of Minnesota.
Dr. Barnes came to Minnesota in 1994 in order to pursue her doctoral degree in orchestra conducting in the University of Minnesota’s nationally renowned Apprentice Conducting Program. But some of her most important work was incidental to her coursework and prescribed conducting assignments: she founded the Campus Orchestra program (the university’s first orchestra open to the entire campus community) and u2u™ outreach program (utilizing the university’s abundant music, dance, theater, and arts education resources to present productions of great works in public schools across the Twin Cities). She brought this same creative spirit to her position at Young Audiences of Minnesota, instigating productive collaborative relationships, developing creative working relationships with the organization’s roster of 100+ artists, and meeting the continuingly developing arts-in-education needs for artists, teachers and students in Minnesota. Her programming initiatives include creating the award-winning Classical Traditions program and the groundbreaking Professional Development for Educators program. It was in fact her work with artists of many genres and disciplines that led her to investigate and experiment in earnest with how the music of different cultures and genres might impact the classical music traditions she knew so well. Previous to moving to Minnesota Barnes worked as musician, teacher, and outreach specialist while living in New York City, California and Illinois. She was recently featured in the Gracie Allen Award-winning radio series, Instrumental Women, produced by Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to her doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, Barnes holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano and violin performance from Northwestern University, and a Master of Music degree in piano performance. |
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