Barbara York has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 30 years as a Music Director, Teacher, Accompanist and Composer. Her score for the theatre musical Colette in 1980, won her a coveted Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Plans are already in the works for at least two more such pieces for Amati .
Her duo partnership with Saxophonist, Glen Gillis , spans almost a decade, and includes both Canadian and International concerts, plus the premiering of her own A Requiem for Lost Loves , for alto sax and piano, at the World Saxophone Congress in Pesaro, Italy.