Jennifer Margaret Barker (born 6 May 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-American classical composer and pianist. Her compositional style is highly influenced by the landscape, culture and musical heritage of Scotland. She is Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Delaware. Her music has been recorded on the Naxos Records, Composers Recordings Inc., New World Records, Albany Records, Meyer Media and PnOVA Recordings labels. She is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser Company, Vanderbeek & Imrie Ltd., Southern Percussion and McKenna-Keddie Publishing. Biography Raised in Blanefield, Stirlingshire, Barker studied composition with Scottish composer, John Maxwell Geddes at the University of Glasgow (B.Mus. Hons.), before crossing the Atlantic for graduate studies with American Pulitzer prize-winning composers Melinda Wagner and George Crumb at Syracuse University (M.M.) and the University of Pennsylvania (A.M., Ph.D.) respectively. She also worked with British composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir on the 1992 Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Young Composers Course in Orkney, and with American composers Daniel Strong Godfrey and Jay Reise. In 2021 she was named the recipient of the Delaware Division of the Arts Masters Fellowship for Artistic Excellence and Service to the State. Further awards in composition include the 2022 Miriam Gideon Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music, winner of the 2022 New Ariel Recordings Composition Competition (USA), winner of the 2018 Pi Kappa Lambda Chamber Commission (USA), the 2007 Individual Artist Established Fellowship for Artistic Excellence by the Delaware Division of the Arts and Delaware State Arts Council, winner of the 2006 Relâche (musical group) Philadelphia Commissions Project (USA), winner of the 1996 Cambridge Contemporary Music Festival Composition Competition (UK), winner of the 1993 Helen L. Weiss Music Prize for Composition awarded by the University of Pennsylvania (USA), finalist in the 1998-99 AUROS Group for New Music Composition Competition (USA), and finalist in the 1993 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers Award (UK). Barker has also received two awards, in 2019 and 2020, from The American Prize. As a pianist, she studied with Lawrence Glover, Gustav Fenyö and Anne Crawford at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and with George Pappastavrou at Syracuse University and Gary Spielstead, of The University of Western Ontario, Canada. She studied violin with J. Mullen Begbie (Concertmaster of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) and Angus Andersen (Concertmaster of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra), and oboe with Phillip Hill (Principal Oboist with the