About

Kevin Barker is an Australian composer who lives in the Blue Mountains, about 90 minutes west of Sydney. His music is steeped in a deep connection and profound empathy with the natural world. It is permeated with a strong affinity for landscape, and a striving to place the human soul within it—to understand and affirm our intrinsic kinship with the world that we inhabit.

Following a career as a freelance jazz musician and composer/arranger, he now concentrates on composing contemporary art music. His early works were played by such jazz luminaries as Don Burrows, Phil Wilson, James Morrison, and the Australian Jazz Orchestra. More recently he has developed a love for choral music and art song, working with AVÉ (Australian Vocal Ensemble), Moorambilla Voices, Voces8, the Song Company, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows, Cantillation, Leichhardt Espresso Chorus, and Bel A Cappella.

Kevin is also an in-demand arranger and orchestrator, working across a diverse spectrum—from children’s concerts by the Tasmanian Symphony, “jazz lieder” with the SOQ and Chengdu Symphony Orchestra, to symphonic hip hop with L-Fresh the Lion.

• Listen to some samples of Kevin’s work here.

• If you’d like to chat with Kevin about working together on a project, please find his contact details here .