barbara biggers

Barbara Biggers is currently acting principal harp at The Dallas Opera and also performs regularly with the Ft. Worth Symphony as well as many free lance groups in the area. Before moving to the Dallas area, she was an active freelancer in the New York area. Ms. Biggers performed regularly with the New Jersey Symphony, and was principal harp with the Westfield Symphony and performed with many other symphonic groups in the New York area. In addition, she has performed for the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.

As soloist, she has appeared with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Marble Collegiate Concert Series, Monmouth Symphony, Newtown Chamber Symphony, and American Harp Society and has performed at Merkin Concert Hall in recital. She has performed on The Today Show and also has done a national television commercial. Ms. Biggers also maintains a large private teaching studio, and has done numerous master classes for the American Harp Society.

Ms. Biggers was principal harp with the Broadway musicals Follies, Ragtime and Nine. She has also performed with the Broadway productions of Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, The Producers, , Light in the Piazza, Beauty and the Beast, The Pirate Queen, 42nd Street, Wicked, Hello Dolly and Carousel. Her recordings include a solo cd, Nocturne, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols with the American Boy Choir, the cast albums of Nine and Follies and Fantasy Sonata by Sir Arnold Bax with violist Brett Deubner.

Ms. Biggers began her harp studies with her mother, Jeanne Fintz Goldstein and then proceeded to the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Alice Chalifoux.