Melinda Bargreen

MELINDA BARGREEN

Melinda Bargreen is a Seattle-based composer and writer who is the author of "Classical Seattle" (University of Washington Press, 2015) and "50 Years of Seattle Opera" (Marquand Press, 2014). Her award-winning choral works have been featured in performances at the White House (2015) and in concert halls from China to Belgium, as well as on PBS television (in the "Christmas at Belmont" holiday program of 2011).

Reviews, commentary, photos, and other information are available on her website: www.melindabargreen.com.

She was classical music critic of The Seattle Times from 1977 to 2008, covering decades of great arts and also the planning, financing and acoustical design of two major Seattle concert halls (Benaroya Hall and McCaw Hall). Melinda has written freelance reviews and articles for several national and international publications, including the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, the U.K.-based MusicWeb International, The American Record Guide, Symphony Magazine, Muso Magazine, TheClassicalReview.com, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. Voted "Seattle's Best Critic" in an earlier survey by The Seattle Weekly, she also is a former contributor to NPR's "Performance Today" series.

Some of her choral works can be accessed at Santa Barbara Music Publishing (www.sbmp.com) and at her own website (www.melindabargreen.com). Melinda has been a speaker at several colleges and universities, from Cornish College and the University of Washington to Gordon College (Mass.). She has lectured for the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Women's University Club of Seattle.

In Seattle, Melinda's articles appear on-line at Classical KING-FM's website and newsletter (www.king.org), and also occasionally in The Seattle Times' print and electronic editions.

Melinda holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Washington, and a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine.