About  Barbara Owen

Bar­bara Owen holds degrees in organ and musi­col­o­gy from West­min­ster Choir Col­lege and Boston Uni­ver­si­ty, and has also stud­ied at the North Ger­man Organ Acad­e­my and Acad­e­my of Ital­ian Organ Music.  Bar­bara is the author of many peri­od­i­cal and anthol­o­gy arti­cles, entries in The New Grove Dic­tio­nary of Music and Har­vard Dic­tio­nary of Music, and sev­er­al books, includ­ing The Organ in New Eng­land, E. Pow­er Big­gs: Con­cert Organ­ist, The Reg­is­tra­tion of Baroque Organ Music, The Great Organ at Methuen, The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms and Pio­neers in Amer­i­can Organ Music 1860 – 1920. She has served four decades as organ­ist and choir direc­tor of the First Reli­gious Soci­ety (UU) in New­bury­port, Mass., and was also Direc­tor of the AGO Organ Library in Boston Uni­ver­si­ty for sev­er­al years. A Past Pres­i­dent and Coun­cil­lor of the Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety, she has also served the Amer­i­can Guild of Organ­ists as Region­al Coun­cil­lor and chap­ter Dean, and was a Trustee of Methuen Memo­r­i­al Music Hall.