Barbara Cohen
Barbara Cohen is an accomplished singer/songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose work embraces a variety of genres—from folk to trip-hop, electronica, world and modern-classical music.
Her career as a recording artist includes co-founding the Virgin Records’ band, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, collaborating with England’s rave luminaries, Orbital, singing lead vocals for the French experimental duo, Air, and releasing critically acclaimed albums, both as a soloist and with Red House Record’s band Farm Accident and Girl & Her Monster Record’s band Little Lizard.
Barbara’s ability to blend disparate musical elements extends to her scores for film and television: these range from the Academy Award nominated documentary, Four Winters, and the Emmy-nominated POV documentary, The Judge and the General to the dream-like cabaret-influenced HBO feature, Habana Eva and guitar driven score for the MTV feature, Pedro; from the, Middle Eastern arrangements for feature documentaries The Lost Dream PBS/POV and Al Jazeera America’s Words of Witness.
Barbara’s songs and vocals have also been featured on film and television shows, including: Warner Bros.’ Red Riding Hood, Fox Pictures’ Broke Down Palace, and NBC primetime series Lipstick Jungle and Third Watch.
Her awards include admittance to the prestigious Sundance Film Composer Lab Fellowship,
BMI Conducting Workshop, the Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship Grant for Artistry and Composition and the Minnesota Music Awards for Artist of the Year & Vocalist of the Year.
As an educator Barbara is a faculty instructor for the EMRA (Electronic Music Recording Arts) program, at MacPhail Center for Music. She also taught for over twenty years at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles California, where she authored curriculum and instructed classes on: Film & Television Scoring, Production & Recording for the Vocalist as well as, individual instruction for Songwriting and Voice. She has guest lectured at the University of Southern California’s Cinematic & Animation Arts, Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA and was a Panelist for CILECT Sound Conference at Chapman University, Orange CA. She holds a Bachelors in Music Composition, from Musician’s Institute.