Barbara has been performing professionally in the Eugene area for more than twenty years. Although her early training and study was in classical music, she has been self-taught in jazz improvisation since 1971. She has played in New York at the River Cafe, The Gage & Tollner, and at Greene Street in SoHo. In May 1980 she auditioned and was hired at the Harbor View Restaurant and Hotel in St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she spent thirteen months playing six nights a week in the hotel dining area.
In 1985 she worked as a lounge pianist at the Eugene Hilton and remained employed there until 1994. From 1986 to 1988 she was co-leader/composer for the jazz quartet Meridian, and recorded an album of original music which lead the group to perform at The Hobbit in Portland, the 1987 "du Maurier" Jazz Festival in Vancouver, B.C., the Gig Harbor Jazz Festival in Washington as well as the Eugene Celebration and local clubs in Eugene, Oregon.
Currently performing solo piano and with her trio.