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James R. Barry is Minister of Music at St. James' Church in Glastonbury, CT. Previously
he was Purchasing Specialist with the Girl Scouts and Operations Manager with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
For many years, Mr. Barry was Canon Precentor at Christ Church Cathedral,
Hartford, overseeing an active music program of choirs and concert
events. He is Assistant Organist at St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church,
Hartford. In addition to achieving degrees from the Rhode Island
School of Design, the Hartt School and Yale University, Mr. Barry
studied organ with Edward Clark and Thomas Murray, and conducting
with Marguerite Brooks.
Mr. Barry was organ soloist for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra's
Aaron Copland Classical Conversations series as well as having played
organ recitals at St. Thomas Church and the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, New York City. Choirs and child soloists under his direction
have collaborated on programs with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra,
Connecticut Opera, the Hartford Chorale, the Hartford Stage Company,
Trinity College Concert Choir, and the Manchester Chorale. He served
three terms as Dean of the Greater Hartford Chapter of the American
Guild of Organists, was a member of the Program Committee for the
June 2005 AGO Region I convention, and was Region I Councillor.
He served as Director-at-Large of the Association of Anglican Musicians
and is currently on the CONCORA Friends of Bach steering committee
and the Woodland Concert Series Board.
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