James Earl Barnes (b. 1950) is a tenured Associate Professor of Music
and Chair of the Music Department at Moravian College. He is also Director
of Instrumental Music conducting the Moravian College Wind Ensemble, the Moravian
College Greyhound Marching Band, and the Moravian College Pep Band. Barnes
has served as Chair of the Music Department from 2001-2004 and 2007-the present,
Chair of the Human Subjects Internal Review Board, and, in 2000-2001, Director
of Computing Across the Curriculum for the College. While at Moravian, Barnes
directed the Pennsylvania Youth Honors Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble for
6 years and the MCWE Jazz Ensemble for 5 years. He holds degrees from the
State University of New York at Albany (B.A., Music), The Juilliard School
(M.M.), and Lehigh University (M.S., Educational Technology) with classical
and jazz studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and L'Institute
des Hautes Etudes Musicale (Switzerland). Barnes teaches courses in conducting,
musicianship, and music technology.
From 1980 to 1998, Barnes was a free-lance cimbalom player (Hungarian
hammered dulcimer). He performed as soloist with a number of orchestras and
ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore, Montreal, Atlanta,
Toronto, and NHK (Tokyo) symphonies, the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia,
Boston Musica Viva, ALEA III, Speculum Musicae, and the Canadian Chamber Ensemble.
In addition to serving as a guest conductor and a concert band, marching band,
choral, orchestral, and jazz band adjudicator, Barnes was a performer on recordings
of band music from the eighteenth century, as well as works by Persichetti
(Grammy nomination), Kodaly, Debussy, and Stravinsky. He has conducted and
taught at Temple University, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, The New
School of Music (Phila), Mercy College/Westchester Conservatory (NY), Holyoke
Community College (MA), Keene State College (NH) and Kinhaven Music School
(VT).
Moravian College Music
1200 Main Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018
(610) 861-1672 (voice)
(610) 861-1657 (FAX)
Employment e-mail barnesj@moravian.edu
Residence
PO Box 1922
Bethlehem, PA 18016-1922