Call 800-543-5429 VIV 918

This delightful three-movement concerto fills the gap in early Classical repertoire for organists. Sirmen (1745-1818) was a multifaceted composer who studied in Venice with Giuseppe Tartini before touring Europe, first as a violinist, and then as an opera star. The three movements have the serene symmetry, delicate ornamentation, and delightful melodies that are as indigenous to Sirmen as they are to the Classical style.
VIV 918, 32 pages, $14.95

Dr. Barbara Harbach, Visiting Professor of Music at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, tours extensively as both a concert organist and harpsichordist. Her appearances include recitals throughout North America, Korea, Japan, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Russian Siberia as well as solo and continuo roles with symphony orchestras. She holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University, Yale University, Konzertdiplom from the Musikhochschule, Frankfurt, Germany, and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.).

Her lively performances and recordings have captured the imagination of many American composers, and the body of work written for and dedicated to Harbach is substantial. Musical America has called her "nothing short of brilliant" and Gramophone has cited her as an "acknowledged interpreter -- and, indeed, muse -- of modern harpsichord music."

She was host of the weekly television music series Palouse Performance seen throughout the Inland Northwest.

An accomplished composer, Harbach has written musicals, choral anthems, works for organ, harpsichord, and string orchestra, as well as many arrangements and transcriptions for brass and organ of various baroque works. She is involved in the research, editing, and publication of manuscripts of eighteenth century keyboard composers. Her work is available in both recorded and published form through Gasparo Records, Kingdom Records, Albany Records, Northeastern Records, Hester Park, Robert King Music, Elkan-Vogel, Augsburg Publishing, Agape Music, and Vivace Press.

Harbach is a prolific recording artist (solo and ensemble), and she has been heard on St. Paul Sunday Morning, Pipedreams, Adventures in Good Music, BOB and BILL, Eastman Brass, Audiophile Audition, and Live from Chautauqua. She is editor of Women of Note Quarterly and has been the Director of three Women in Music Symposia at the State University of New York at Buffalo.