THOMAS E. BARKER, b. Atlanta, Georgia.

Degrees and Schools
• DMA, Columbia University
• MFA, Juilliard School
• BFA, Juilliard School
• Diploma, Manhattan School of Music
• Blair Academy of Music Fellow, Peabody College

Composition Instructors
• Milton Babbitt
• Jack Beeson
• Chow Wen-Chung
• Vladimir Ussachevsky
• Charles Wuorinen

Awards
• Academy-Institute Award / American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• Meet the Composer Grants
• Margaret Fairbank Jory Grant / American Music Center
• American Symphony Orchestra League New Music Project Grant
• The Charles Ives Award / American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• The American Choral Foundation Grant
• Kanter-Plaut Foundation Grant
• Koninklijke Academie of the Arts Award
• United States Representative in Music to the Belgium Millennium Festivitie Festival of Flanders in 1979

Commissions
• Group for Contemporary Music
• Woodstock Chamber Orchestra
• New York New Music Ensemble
• members of the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra among others