SEAN BARker
Sean Barker has worked as a freelance performer and teacher in Berlin since 2010. A native of Spokane, WA, Sean relocated to Berlin after completing his Masters Degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Montana, where he also holds Bachelors Degrees in Piano Performance and Clarinet Performance. Sean was a graduate teaching assistant during his masters program at the University of Montana, winning the University's "Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year award" for the 2008 school year for outstanding teaching for the class “The Language of Music”.
While in Berlin, Sean has maintained a private teaching studio, while also working as co-head of the musical theater department of Die Etage, a performing arts school in Kreuzberg, from 2014 to 2016. Sean also works with a number of singers in Berlin, organizing a concert series at Sally Bowles Art Cafe featuring opera and cabaret singers from across Europe and North America. A recent highlight for Sean was premiering an original song cycle of his own composition, settings of Wallace Steven's poems "13 Ways if Looking at a Blackbird", with Canadian soprano Danielle Simpson.
At the Probenraüme Stephansaal, Sean will be teaching piano lessons, clarinet lessons, and working with singers as a repetiteur. Please contact him at any time for a sample lesson or to make an appointment.
While in Berlin, Sean has maintained a private teaching studio, while also working as co-head of the musical theater department of Die Etage, a performing arts school in Kreuzberg, from 2014 to 2016. Sean also works with a number of singers in Berlin, organizing a concert series at Sally Bowles Art Cafe featuring opera and cabaret singers from across Europe and North America. A recent highlight for Sean was premiering an original song cycle of his own composition, settings of Wallace Steven's poems "13 Ways if Looking at a Blackbird", with Canadian soprano Danielle Simpson.
At the Probenraüme Stephansaal, Sean will be teaching piano lessons, clarinet lessons, and working with singers as a repetiteur. Please contact him at any time for a sample lesson or to make an appointment.
