LAKE CHARLES, La., Jan. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Barbara Jeanne
Belew is recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime
Member in the field of Music Education.
Belew serves as an Associate Professor of Music at McNeese State University. Her areas of expertise
include playing the piano and the harp, as well as educating
aspiring young musicians. She has been a part of the field for over
60 years, and truly loves what she does.
In addition to teaching piano and harp, Belew also has taught
courses in keyboard and harp literature and pedagogy of both
instruments, and directs the university harp ensemble. She is a
freelance harp soloist and chamber musician outside of her time
spent teaching, as well as the founder and current Vice President
of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Harp Society, and a former
National Board of Directors member. She founded the MSU Harp Camp,
open to interested pupils of all ages from the second grade up, and
all levels of harp experience, in 2000.
Belew earned her Bachelor's degree in Music from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, graduating with Summa Cum
Laude honors in 1951. She then went on to earn her Master's degree
in Music from Indiana University –
Bloomington in 1953. Belew is also
a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music through the Music Teachers
National Association.
In recognition of her outstanding achievements in the fields of
music and education, Belew has been named a member of the Delta
Kappa Society International, and has been featured in the Who's Who
of American Women through the Marquis Who's Who company. To further
her professional development, she serves as the Recording Secretary
of the Lake Charles Piano Teachers Association (an affiliate of
Louisiana Music Teachers Association and MTNA), Harp Camp and is a
member of the National Board of Directors for the American Harp
Society. She also is a charter member and chapter advisor of the
Delta Chi Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, International Professional
Music Society.
Additionally, Belew was inducted into Who's Who Worldwide
Lifetime Achievement in 2016. She was a Featured Member of Who's
Who in America and Who's Who in the World, from 2009 – 2016.
For some 30 years Belew served as the publicity writer for all
the arts fields within the Department of Performing Arts at
McNeese. She has also appeared in several recitals alongside other
members of the McNeese music faculty, and has performed with the
Lake Charles Symphony since 1958.
Belew credits her excellent teachers for much of her success.
They included: Mattilene Belew (her
mother), Dr. E. Edwin Young and
concert pianist Sidney Foster, plus
Dr. T. W. Dean (in music theory), and harpist Margaret White.
When not working, Belew continues to serve as a Sunday School officer in her church,
Trinity Baptist of Lake Charles, LA.
For more information, visit www.mcneese.edu and
www.barbarajbelew.com.
Contact: Katherine Green,
516-825-5634, pr@continentalwhoswho.com
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SOURCE Continental Who's Who