Stateside, Barbara has served as Guest Conductor for the 2002 Independent School Choral Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina; the 1998 New Jersey Region II Chorus and the 1991 New Jersey All State Chorus. She received the Governor's Teacher Award for Teacher of the Year at Ridge High School in 1998 and the first Excellence in Arts Education Award from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission in 2005. She has been chosen as Master Music Teacher 2008 by NJMEA. She has traveled with the American Music Abroad RED tour to Europe during the summers of 1998, 1999 and 2006.
Barbara Retzko possesses a strong commitment and dedication to the Choral education of all singers. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Trenton State College and her Master of Arts, Magna cum laude, in Choral Conducting from the same. She is in demand as a clinician for area high school choral programs and has served as an adjudicator for northeast Festival companies, the Hunterdon & Sussex County Teen Arts program, and the Roxbury High School Invitational.
She is a member of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) and serves on the state board of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) representing Repertoire & Standards - Senior High School. She also serves as the NJ All-State Chorus Conductor Selection Chairperson for the Choral Procedures Committee for the state of New Jersey.
Barbara is at home in Bernardsville with her husband, Rick.
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