BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra). As a young pianist Barker won many awards at the Edinburgh Competition Festival and Glasgow Music Festival, most notably the ECF’s 1983 William Townsend Memorial Senior Medal, the 1979/1981/1982 Norma Dalziel Chamber Trophies, and the 1977 Marion P. Gibb Prize. She was also awarded the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music’s 1979 Lindsay Lamb Memorial Bursary. She is related through her aunt to British abstract artist, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Her niece, Peigi Barker, is the voice of Young Merida in Pixar Animation Studios' Brave (2012 film). Her sister-in-law, Eilidh Mackenzie, is 2010 Scots Trad Music Awards Gaelic Singer of the Year and former member of Mac-Talla. Mackenzie is featured on two of Barker's recordings: Geodha on her Nyvaigs CD and Tìrean cèin (Distant Shores), a multimedia crossover work. Works and performances Notable amongst Barker's catalogue is her work for children's chorus and symphony orchestra, titled Nollaig, which has received performances from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra with the St. Louis Children's Chorus, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with the New Jersey Youth Choirs, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra with the Virginia Children’s Chorus, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra with the Central Illinois Children's Chorus, and the Lynchburg Symphony with Cantate Children’s and Youth Choir of Central Virginia. Nollaig was commissioned by the Virginia Children's Chorus with the Virginia Symphony and premiered under the baton of Wes Kenney at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA to an audience of just under 10,000 people. With permission from the composer, a chamber version of this work was created by Dr. Betty Bertaux, director of The Children’s Chorus of Maryland, for publication on her Boosey & Hawkes choral series. Further choral-instrumental works include Harmony of Angels, commissioned and premiered by the Bearsden Choir with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Brass and Percussion, and Ealasaid, premiered by 6-WIRE and the University of Delaware Chorale at Carnegie Hall in New York. Described as “a haunting journey through a woman’s experience of life and love”, Barker’s song-cycle for soprano, flute and piano setting four poems by Robert Burns, titled A Lassie’s Love, has been recorded on the Meyer Media LLC label. Commissioned by Scottish ensemble, Vocali3e, the creation of the work, and subsequent concert tours of the work in Scotland and America, were supported by grants from Creative Scotland, The Jean Armour Burns Trust, The