Jasmine Barnes | Featured Artist
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Jasmine Arielle Barnes is a promising composer/vocalist who has performed and has had her music performed all over the world. She is a multifaceted composer who embraces any writing style of music using a variety of instrumentation and specializes in writing for the voice. As of 2023, she has written 5 operas.
Jasmine was brought up in the Baltimore City Public School system and was fortunate to be surrounded by many artistic influences that paved the way for her to become the composer she is today. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Music from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the first composition major of Morgan State University, where she studied under Dr. James Lee III. She is the former Head of Composition and Jazz Voice at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, TX.
Barnes is also a part of a network of composers called "The Blacknificient Seven" with 6 other composers, Shawn Okpebholo, Jessie Montgomery, Damien Geter, Dave Ragland, Joel Thompson, and Carlos Simon. This dynamic group of composers act as a support group to each other and are even working on an upcoming project together. She believes that giving your all to music, contributing to the art, and teaching what you've learned is truly upholding Art and being a true musician.
Learn more about Jasmine and her work at the links below:
Jasmine appears on the following Resonance programs:
and formerly appeared on the following Resonance programs:
Commissions for Now (2021)
Earth’s Protection (2022)
Sweet Honey in the Rock (2023)
MISSION 15 (2024)