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2018 Annual Report

  • Prize Winner

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    The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University proudly announces the 2019 Commission winners. After reviewing 356 submissions from 36 countries, the judging panel awarded Tawnie Olson of New Haven, Connecticut, the $12,000 Barlow Prize to compose a major new work for SATB Choir. The panel also granted Shih-Wei Lo of New York City, New York, the distinction of Honorable Mention.

    Canadian citizen Tawnie Olson is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Yale University, and the University of Calgary. Dr. Olson has received commissions from the Canadian Art Song Project, Third Practice/New Music USA, the Canada Council for the Arts, Mount Holyoke College/The Women’s Philharmonic, the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra, Ithaca College, the American Composers Forum, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Robert Baker Commissioning Fund, among others. In 2017, she received an OPERA America Discovery Grant to develop a new work about Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine with re:Naissance Opera (libretto by Roberta Barker), and a Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development Grant to study field recording at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She is the Composer-in-Residence of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford and an American Composers Forum BandQuest Composer-in-Residence at E.C. Adams School in Guilford, CT. She is the winner of the 2015 Iron Composer Competition, and her Three Songs on Poems by Lorri Neilsen Glenn took second prize in the 2018 NATS Art Song Competition.

    Taiwanese composer Shih-Wei Lo is a Dean’s Fellow in GSAS as well as Kathryn and Shelby Davis International Fellow at Columbia University. Shih-Wei Lo is pursuing a DMA in Composition under the tutelage of Georg Friedrich Haas and George Lewis. He earned his MM in Composition from the University of Washington, where he worked with Huck Hodge and Juan Pampin, and also taught at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). Prior to the graduate studies in the United States, he studied with Ching-Wen Chao and Kris Falk at National Taiwan Normal University, receiving his BFA in Music Theory and Composition. He has received awards from ASCAP/SEAMUS, the Dutch Harp Festival and Composition Contest, and by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.

    For more information about Tawnie Olson, Barlow Prize winner, consult her website.

    General and LDS Commission Recipients

    General and LDS Commission Recipients



    After considering 201 applications in our General and LDS commissioning programs, the Endowment granted $80,000 to thirteen composers who will write works for the following ensembles and musicians:

  • Click on an image for more information regarding premieres and performances of pieces written by Barlow recipients.

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    Gilad Cohen's "Late Shadow"

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    Tuesday, October 02
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    Andrew Maxfield's "Armstice Sonnets"

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    Sunday, November 18
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    Yang Zheng's "The Fleeting Sacred River"

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    Thursday, November 08
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    Stacy Garrop's "Rites for the Afterlife"

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    Friday, October 19
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    Nathan Thatcher's "Terms of Vernery"

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    Sunday, June 03
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    Stuart Wheeler's "Odradek"

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    Friday, April 13
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    Gilad Cohen's "Late Shadow"

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    Friday, June 15
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    Takuma Itoh's "But Beautiful"

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    Sunday, March 04
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    Gabriella Smith's "Tesselations"

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    Sunday, April 08
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    Ethan Wickman Executive Director

    As a composer, there is something effervescently rejuvenating about spending hours each summer with fabulous new music in the company of some of the best composers and performers working today. At the same time, I can’t deny the holistically nourishing aspect of doing this work in such a magnificently beautiful setting. The work we undertake during our Barlow meeting—and the mission of Barlow in particular—harmonizes effortlessly as the aesthetics of nature and art seem to embellish and empower one another. There is something undeniably divine in our labor of helping give life to works by the most talented voices of our time. Though no work of music will likely endure as the mountains that surround us, their very presence gives us—and the Endowment—something irrepressibly aspirational.

    The 2018 meeting ran smoothly and effectively. We were grateful for the contributions of our ensemble guest judges: Andrew Crane (BYU Singers), Donald Nally (The Crossing), and Patrick Dupre Quigley (Seraphic Fire). We also note with gratitude the contributions of our other guest judges: Ben Taylor (filling in for Chen Yi who was unable to attend this summer’s meeting), Newell Dayley, Margot Murdoch, Hilary Demske, and John Costa. Conversations and deliberations were honest and forthright, and yet the rapport between judges was undeniable. I am honored to witness such great souls coming together in common cause.

    The Board of Directors continues to look for ways to improve the judging process and even extend the reach of the Endowment to new communities. For example, adding an additional morning to adjudicate the LDS commission entries enabled a more careful, thoughtful deliberation. Additionally, we are working to improve the ergonomics of the submission process by now accepting sound files in place of physical CDs. There are improvements yet to be made, and I am confident that our respective boards will continue to work to find effective ways of harnessing 21st century technologies. Looking ahead, we hope to commission work that will engage the public more broadly and more creatively, including site-specific projects, and installations that engage the community in less traditional venues.

    All of these things reinforce the notion that the essence of the Barlow Endowment is service: service to composers, service to ensembles, service to our profession, and service to communities. How grateful I am that we can gather together each year, with resources in hand, to build something of enduring, resplendent beauty.

  • 2018 Report

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    The Barlow Education Grant supports students and faculty of the BYU School of Music in their education and their professional endeavors in music composition.

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    Steven Ricks

    Students

    A large share of the Education Grant funds always go towards direct student support, by way of scholarships, assistantships, internships, travel awards and fee support for festivals and performances, and support for guest composers and performers that work directly with students.

    Established in 2011, the Milton A. Barlow Scholarship and the Barlow Student Composition Award are ongoing scholarships/awards presented to the most outstanding composition student(s) in our program. The Milton A. Barlow Scholarship is a one-year, full tuition scholarship, and the Barlow Student Composition Award is a $750 cash award that carries with it a commission to write a new piece for one of BYU’s premiere large ensembles.

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    Scott Nelson

    The recipient of the 2018 Milton A. Barlow Scholarship was incoming masters composition student Scott Nelson. Scott was an impressive applicant who decided to attend BYU as his first choice among several competing offers. He is an ear training instructor and TA for the BYU Electronic Music Studio, and has made several positive contributions to our program and School in the short time he’s been here. This scholarship is a huge support to him and was a major factor in his choice to attend BYU.

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    Austin Lopez

    In Winter 2018 we heard two premieres composed by 2017 Barlow Student Composition Award winners Austin Lopez and Jonny Stallings, by the BYU Philharmonic and Synthesis respectively.

    For his Barlow Student Composition Award, Austin was invited to write a new work for the BYU Philharmonic under the direction of Kory Katseanes. He completed an energetic, rock-inspired piece called Hardline that was premiered in February 2018. Austin also presented a compelling senior recital in February and is heading into graduation this summer with some great momentum, thanks in large part to all this support from the Barlow Endowment.

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    Jonny Stallings

    Barlow Student Composition Award winner Jonny Stallings, a second-year masters student in music composition, is an accomplished jazz pianist in addition to being a composer and was a member of Synthesis, BYU’s top jazz ensemble. Arranging for his commission to be from them was a logical choice, and his new work was premiered in march 2018 and helped his impressive development as a composer. Jonny graduated in August 2018 and has applied to several competitive doctoral programs in music composition for Fall 2019.

    Additional Barlow funds supported Jonny in presenting some original music at Congreso Noir in Salamanca, Spain — an international conference on film noir to which he was invited as an official participant.

    The mission of the Barlow Endowment and the intentions of each of the commissioning ensembles helped shape my view of new music: it embraces what makes us all human simultaneously with what humanity cannot understand, and then inspires us to seek growth in order to increase understanding.
    Clark Evans

    July 2018 marked the thirteenth year BYU student interns have assisted with the annual Barlow summit and Barlow Prize and Commissions judging. Four of our students—Kalysha Chandler, Clark Evans, Thomas Fairholm, and Ryan Miller—helped prepare for the annual summit by coordinating hundreds of scores, recordings, and other materials that would be used in the judging process. They then attended the summit, which included several days of reviewing scores and judging by the Barlow Board of Advisors and guest judges, including representatives of the wind quintet consortium members. Students not only observed the judging process first hand while assisting in the various rooms, but also had several opportunities to interact directly with these professional composers and performers during meals and breaks. The Barlow Internship has been a great boost to our program and we look forward to its continuation.

    Barlow Education Grant funds continue to provide needed and valuable support for our composition courses, providing honoraria for student performers that workshop and perform pieces by developing student composers. The practical training our composition students receive from these performances is a key part of their success in our program and in their consistent acceptance into competitive graduate programs.

    Visiting Scholars

    Barlow funds support Barlow Lectures and residencies by guest composers and performers each year that provide our students with exposure to the top professionals in the field of contemporary music. In addition to hearing these artists in a Barlow Lecture, students meet with these guests individually and in small groups for private composition lessons, shared meals, reading sessions with performers, and in other settings. Here is a bulleted list that highlights our activities in this area:

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    Dan Trueman

    • Princeton composer Dan Trueman visited in January for a Utah Crosstalk concert that included three of his works, performed by our students. One of the pieces was Four Squared for Ligeti, an innovative piece for acoustic piano, two digital pianos, and laptop ensemble that uses gametrak tethers (video game controllers) to manipulate audio. The presentation of this piece represented over a year of preparation and rehearsals so this was a rewarding fulfillment. Dan had private lessons with our students, presented a Barlow Lecture, and coached our student performers in advance of the concert.
    • BYU alum and successful Hollywood composer Chris Bacon gave Oscarson (whole School of Music) and Barlow (composition students) Lectures in September in which he talked about his current work (including some yet-to-be-released clips [hint GRINCH]) and showed several clips from major productions, for both television and film, that included his music. He answered student questions, talked about which aspects of his Music Composition degree from BYU were most helpful to him, and spoke with students more personally in a lunch session.
    • Chinese composer Jia Guoping, Director of the Musicology Institute at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, was on campus in November for several days for a Group for New Music concert featuring his work and the work of several other contemporary Chinese composers. His residency also included private lessons with composition students, a Barlow Lecture, visits with BYU orchestra director Kory Katseanes, and informal lunch/dinner meetings with faculty and students. He was so pleased with his visit and impressed with BYU that it has initiated talks for possible formal connections between the BYU School of Music and Beijing Conservatory.
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      Jia Guoping
    • Young composer/performer Logan Hone, a saxophonist from Utah who graduated from Cal Arts and is active in the LA area, visited campus to perform in a “Monk Marathon” featuring ALL the works of jazz legend Thelonious Monk with BYU faculty composer/performer Christian Asplund in October. Hone presented a Barlow Lecture to our composition students on his music and varied musical activities in the exciting LA scene.
    • Ethel, an innovative string quartet, conducted a reading session with seven of our composition students in December. The range and quality of the student works was impressive, and certainly caught the attention of the group. The session was recorded and was a great learning experience for the students, and will be a great asset to them as they apply for awards, to graduate school, and generally progress towards graduation and future careers.
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      Ethel String Quartet

    Faculty

    Barlow funds continue to support worthy faculty projects and activities, as a way of increasing the profile and reputation of our area, and as a means to ensure our faculty are in the best position to instruct the students in current trends and practices.

    One great example of this was through Barlow support to faculty composer Stephen Jones in connection with the premiere and recording of his new chamber work, Sixteen Stones. Jones hosted several SLC-area professional performers for the BYU premiere and recording of his piece on our October 2018 faculty recital. It was a great opportunity for students to see work by one of their teachers brought to fruition by a group who had fine-tuned it through careful practice.

    The Barlow Education Grant continues to support a variety of worthwhile and productive activities within the BYU School of Music composition area. We greatly appreciate these funds and will continue to use them in interesting and helpful ways.

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    Kalysha Chandler

    Having the opportunity to participate as a Barlow intern was among the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had a student. I was incredibly privileged to be around some of the top composing minds in the world and was able to gain a unique insight into what specific qualities are necessary for a successful, mature, impactful composition. I learned so many things about what I needed to apply to my own music and compositional processes in order to create meaningful music, as well as what things I needed to do to help me grow as a composer. From a competition standpoint, it was helpful to see what judges are looking for and what I can do to make music more engaging and fulfilling.

    My understanding of and appreciation for quality music that was meaningful deepened as I was able to listen to insightful discussions about qualities of different pieces that were valuable to creating successful music. Additionally, I was able to engage in many conversations with the judges who were kind enough to give me specific advice about my compositional outputs, processes, and experiences. Overall, I felt enriched as a composer, musician, and person because of the interactions I was able to have with the many talented and successful people there as well as the impressive dialogues I was able to observe.

    I am very grateful to the Barlow family, whose kindness and generosity made it possible for me to have this valuable experience. Their encouragement and contributions to ensure the continued success of music and the arts are greatly appreciated.

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    Thomas Fairholm

    My experience as an intern with the Barlow Endowment was deeply inspiring and informative. I was able to encounter firsthand the ideas that comprise today’s contemporary musical landscape. In addition, I was able to learn from a front-row perspective what composers, conductors, and performers look for when evaluating a new piece of music.

    I was particularly struck by the types of questions that the judges would ask one another to determine the merit of a work. I found myself asking the same questions of my own music, and in the process was able to reevaluate my purpose as a composer. This has given me a greater commitment to honing my personal technique and communicating with the highest artistic standards. It also gives me a framework by which I can measure my progress as I work to develop my abilities.

    The judges, a diverse group of composers and conductors, were generous, respectful, and insightful. I appreciated their friendliness as well as their advice concerning educational goals and potential career paths. I feel more prepared to consider graduate studies and understand better what I should be focusing on during my undergraduate experience. I feel that I have a clearer vision of my potential trajectory as an artist.

    I’ve come away from my experience at the Barlow Endowment with a deepened dedication to my craft as well as greater confidence to achieve my educational and artistic goals. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Barlow family for making this experience possible.

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    Clark Evans

    I am thankful for the opportunity I was given to be a small part of this year’s Barlow Commission. It was educational to be exposed to the music of hundreds of composers and to hear the feedback and opinions of highly regarded music professionals. I now understand how to present my own music professionally and how valuable it is to have a strong network with other composers, performers, and ensembles. As my network begins to grow it will lead to increased performance quality of my work and increased freedom of expression in my composition.

    By observing the judges, I feel that I have come to understand myself better. The mission of the Barlow Endowment and the intentions of each of the commissioning ensembles helped shape my view of new music: it embraces what makes us all human simultaneously with what humanity cannot understand, and then inspires us to seek growth in order to increase understanding. It is true artistic expression, and I have felt the pull to better myself. I want to have an impact through my music—to facilitate a connection between performer and listener, to create memorable experiences, and to be an inspiration to those who come into contact with my music. I feel my compositional voice has been refined, and I have greater confidence in my abilities to achieve these goals.

    I am so grateful to the Barlow family. Thank you for establishing such an incredible culture of celebrating artistic expression. I know countless lives have been changed for good in the past 35 years, and I look forward to witnessing the future of music composition. Additionally, thank you for investing in me. It was an honor to be involved this year; it was an experience I will not soon forget.

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    Ryan Miller

    This opportunity to be an intern for the Barlow endowment has been an invaluable experience! The things I have learned from y observations has given me perspective on my future as a composer. I learned many things ranging from how to create an appealing score and how professional musicians evaluate music they come across, to how to better network among musicians and composers to get pieces performed. I am now more excited and confident in my future and in going to graduate school.

    As I observed the judging process, I learned how composers and performers evaluate recordings and scores. I know it is important, of course, to not only provide everything that is requested, but it is also important to develop your own voice and write creatively. No one wants to listen to music that sounds like someone else’s voice. I believe this will be of great help to me as I apply to graduate schools and as I apply to contests in the future.

    Perhaps the most beneficial aspect of this internship was having the opportunity to talk to professional composers about graduate school and life as a musician. We talked about what graduate schools look for in an applicant, how I should focus my studies as an undergraduate to prepare me for the future, how to balance work and life and finances as a professional musician, and many more things. This has given me more direction and confidence for these next few years in my life as I prepare to go to graduate school.

    I would like to thank the Barlow family for providing this experience. I would highly recommend it to any aspiring composer. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

  • Barlow Board of Advisors

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    Chen Yi

    As a prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries, Dr. Chen Yi is Distinguished Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her music is published by Theodore Presser Company, commissioned and performed world wide by such ensembles as the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic, the Seattle, Pacific, Singapore, China National, New Zealand symphonies, LA and China philharmonics, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, recorded on Bis, New Albion, New World, Teldec, Albany, Bridge, Naxos, and many labels. She has received bachelor and master degrees in composition (1983 and 1986) from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree (1993) from Columbia University in New York. Major composition teachers are Profs. Wu Zu-qiang, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, and appointed to the Cheungkong Scholar Visiting Professor at the CCoM in 2006, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tianjin Conservatory in 2012.

    * Chen is family name, Yi is personal name. Chen Yi can be referred to Dr. Chen, Prof. Chen, Ms. Chen, or Chen Yi, but not Dr. Yi, Prof. Yi, or Ms. Yi.

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    Daniel Bradshaw

    Situated on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by one of the most international student bodies in the US, composer Daniel Bradshaw deals with a variety of influences, from classical traditions to rock idioms, to the timing of waves, to the rhythms of Polynesian drumming. Professional honors include awards from the American Music Center, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, and the American Composers Orchestra. His most recent work, On the Cooler (solo steel pan), was commissioned by Daniel Edwards and performed in Urbana-Champaign, IL. Other recent projects include Mimic Octopus, a collaborative composition with the fourth-grade students of Laie Elementary, and At Full Strength for orchestra, with planned performances at BYU (Provo, UT) and the Keneewaw Symphony Orchestra (Houghton, MI).

    Dan received his doctoral degree in Music Composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he studied with Claude Baker, Sven-David Sandström and David Dzubay. He is the son of the late composer Merrill Bradshaw, whose music continues to inspire him.

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    Dorothy Chang

    Dorothy Chang serves as a Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia School of Music. Her music is rooted in the Western art music tradition but often reflects the eclectic mix of musical influences from her youth, ranging from popular and folk music to elements of traditional Chinese music. Highlights from 2018 include two world premieres: Gateways, a double concerto premiered by the Piano-Erhu Project and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Afterlight for soprano saxophone and piano, premiered at the 2018 World Saxophone Congress in Croatia. Other highlights include performances of her works by the Albany Symphony Orchestra at the SHIFT Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Little Giant Chinese Orchestra and the Turning Point Ensemble at the Taiwan National Concert Hall in Taipei, and performances by the Trinitas Chamber Ensemble, Magisterra Soloists, Sea and Sky Collective and Nu:BC Collective. Dorothy lives with her husband and daughter in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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    Neil Thornock

    Neil Thornock is Associate Professor of music composition at Brigham Young University and is an associate director of the School of Music. In January 2018, he premiered Motet, his 80-minute work for piano and electronics. Three of his works were performed at the national congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, in conjunction with the publication of thirteen of his carillon works. Firehead Editions published the second volume of The Millennium Book, featuring twenty short works for organ. He also received commissions from cellist Michelle Kesler, for her residency at De Chelly National Park, and from violist Devan Freebairn. In November, he performed Earth, from his Planetarium for organ and electronics, at University of Texas San Antonio.

    Guest Judges

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    Donald Nally

    The Crossing
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    Andrew Crane

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    Patrick Dupre Quigley

    Seraphic Fire
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    Benjamin Taylor

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    John Costa

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    Newell K. Dayley

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    Margot Glassett Murdoch

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    Hilary Demske

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    Barlow Board of Directors

    Chair
    Ed Adams

    Family Representative
    Nancy Barlow Cox

    Vice Chair
    Kirt Saville

    Financial Officer
    Scott M. Boyter

    Executive Director
    Ethan Wickman

    Administrator
    Rebecca Ott