Barbara Raedeke teaches organ for the Department of Music.
Barbara Raedeke teaches organ at Washington University and serves as Organist and Choir Director at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. She has taught at Middle Tennessee State University and Lindenwood University and is active as a recitalist, teacher, adjudicator, and church musician. She has performed with the Masterworks Chorale, St. Louis Symphony Brass Quintet, Bach Society of St. Louis, St. Louis Philharmonic, Town and Country Orchestra, Washington University Symphony Orchestra, and Washington University Opera. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree in church music from Valparaiso University, where she studied organ with William Eifrig and Philip Gehring. She continued her organ studies in Paris, France with André Marchal, and subsequently completed the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the Eastman School of Music, where her organ teacher was Russell Saunders. She is an active member of the American Guild of Organists and was a featured recitalist at its 2015 North Central Regional Convention held in St. Louis. Confluence, her recording on the Juget-Sinclair organ at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in St. Louis, has been issued by Raven Compact Discs.