Barbara M. Tagg

Barbara M. Tagg is conductor of the SU Women’s Choir and is a member of the music education faculty at Syracuse University. She is founder and Director Emerita of the Syracuse Children’s Chorus, with whom she premiered over 90 choral works, received two ASCAP Chorus America Awards for Adventuresome Programming, and received numerous National Endowment for the Arts grants. Her first book, Before the Singing, was released in 2013 by Oxford University Press. Tagg has presented concerts, papers, and workshops in Great Britain, Europe, Canada, Hong Kong, and China, as well as for universities and choral organizations throughout the United States.

Tagg is a management consultant to children’s choirs in North America. She served on the national boards of Chorus America and the American Choral Directors Association spanning 30 years. For many years she was artistic director of the Keynote Arts Associates festivals in Orlando, Florida and the Adirondack Children’s Choir at the Adirondack Festival of American Music. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Sigma Alpha Iota, holds the Choral Music Experience Artist-Teacher Certificate, and is an honorary member of the Ernst Bacon Foundation.