...About Barbara Shinn

Barbara Shinn is a member of the music faculty of Samford University, where she teaches theory and directs the class piano program. She also maintains a private piano studio in her home in which she teaches precollege and adult students. Ms. Shinn’s students are consistent winners in solo and concerto competitions throughout the state and the south.

Awarded the Alabama Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year Award in 2006, she holds two undergraduate degrees  one in applied piano and the other in music education  from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, and two masters degrees  one in piano and the other in collaborative piano  from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in addition to extended studies in music theory at UW-Madison. She has held faculty positions at the University of South Dakota, Cumberland College of Tennessee and Huntingdon College.

Ms. Shinn regularly performs in faculty chamber music recitals and has presented numerous programs with her husband in duet and duo piano recitals. She is a Past President of Alabama Music Teachers Association and is also Past President of Metro Music Forum (Birmingham) as well as a member of the AMTA Board.

Ms. Shinn was the recipient of the Presidential Scholars’ Teacher Recognition Award in Washington, D.C., in June, 2008.