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Carol Barnett

 
Carol Barnett (b. 1949) has had a longtime presence on the Minnesota music scene. She is a charter member of the American Composers Forum and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she studied composition with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler, piano with Bernard Weiser, and flute with Emil J. Niosi. She was composer-in-residence with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 2001, and received the 2003 Nancy Van de Vate International Prize for Opera for her chamber opera, Snow. Barnett has been commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club, the Minnesota Music Teachers Association and the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis, and her works have been performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Gregg Smith Singers, the Women's Philharmonic, the Westminster Abbey Choir, and the Ankor Children's Choir of Jerusalem. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and the Inter-University Research Committee on Cyprus. Barnett is a national honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota. She currently teaches at Augsburg college in Minneapolis.