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Ysaye Barnwell
| Ysaye M. Barnwell was born in New York City and has lived in
Washington, D.C., for over 40 years. Her life experiences have taken her
down three major paths. She began in music at the age of 2, studying
violin for 15 years with her father and majoring in music in high school.
She sang in a choir while in junior high school and then in college. In
1976, she founded the Jubilee Singers at All Souls Unitarian Church in
Washington, D.C. It was, there in 1979, that Bernice Johnson Reagon
witnessed her as a singer and a Sign Language interpreter and invited her
to audition for Sweet Honey In The Rock. Barnwell is also a Speech Pathologist with the Bachelors, Masters (SUNY, Geneseo 1963-68) and Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh 1975) degrees and was a professor in the College of Dentistry for over a decade. In 1981 she completed post-doctoral work and earned the Master of Science in Public Health. Over the past two decades, Barnwell has earned a significant reputation as a commissioned composer and arranger, author, master teacher and choral clinician in African American cultural performance. She has two children's book: No Mirrors In My Nana's House, and We Are One, both published by Harcourt, Inc., a boxed set of African American stories and songs for young people: Um Hmm, and an instructional boxed set: Singing in the African American Tradition. She created the Community Sing which she conducts monthly in Washington, D.C., and the workshop Building a Vocal Community - Singing In the African American Tradition, which she has conducted on three continents, utilizing an African world view, and African American history, values, cultural and vocal traditions to work with and build community among singers and non-singers alike. Her pedagogy is highly respected among musicians, educators, health workers, activists, organizers, and in corporate and non-profit sectors. Barnwell is also an aspiring actress whose most recent endeavors include_once the narration for the NPR documentary W.C. Handy's Blues. |
Songbooks, Arrangements and/or Media
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Ysaye Barnwell : A Cappella Arrangements Vol 2 Most known for her singing with and musical compositions performed and recorded by Sweet Honey In The Rock, Dr. Barnwell has composed and arranged music appearing on 10 recordings on the Rounder, Flying Fish, Earthbeat!/Warner and Music For Little People Labels and has been a commissioned composer on numerous and varied dance, choral, film, and video. Songlist: Prayer, We Are..., In Unity, No Mirrors in My House 
Ysaye Barnwell : A Cappella Arrangements Vol 3 Ysaye Barnwell Barnwell is most known for her singing with and musical compositions performed and recorded by Sweet Honey In The Rock. Songlist: Hope, Would You Harbor Me?, Wanna Die Easy, When I Die
Ysaye Barnwell : A Cappella Arrangements Vol 4 Most known for her singing with and musical compositions performed and recorded by Sweet Honey In The Rock, Dr. Barnwell has composed and arranged music appearing on 10 recordings on the Rounder, Flying Fish, Earthbeat!/Warner and Music For Little People Labels and has been a commissioned composer on numerous and varied dance, choral, film, and video. Songlist: Wanting Memories, Breaths, Spiritual
Ysaye Barnwell : Arrangements for Women's Voices Most known for her singing with and musical compositions performed and recorded by Sweet Honey In The Rock, Dr. Barnwell has composed and arranged music appearing on 10 recordings on the Rounder, Flying Fish, Earthbeat!/Warner and Music For Little People Labels and has been a commissioned composer on numerous and varied dance, choral, film, and video. Songlist: Sound-Bite from Beijing, On Children, More Than a Paycheck, There Is A Balm in Gilead
Ysaye Barnwell : Wanting Memories The shimmer of the water can be heard as the choir opens this piece. The beautiful melody rises above to tell the tender story of this love song. Listen to the piece come alive in the recording created by the high school choir that commissioned this piece.
Ysaye Barnwell : Wanting Memories - Parts CD The shimmer of the water can be heard as the choir opens this piece. The beautiful melody rises above to tell the tender story of this love song. Listen to the piece come alive in the recording created by the high school choir that commissioned this piece. |
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Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
The shimmer of the water can be heard as the choir opens this piece. The beautiful melody rises above to tell the tender story of this love song. Listen to the piece come alive in the recording created by the high school choir that commissioned this piece.
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
Arranger: Ysaye Barnwell | Composer: Ysaye Barnwell Performed By: Sweet Honey In The Rock
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