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Barb Blevins

Barb Blevins has had a meandering path to composition studies. She had nine years of piano lessons as a child, became church organist at age 15, her first paid music job, and held that position for three years, until she graduacted from high school. She also played for funerals, weddings, and other school and social events during that time.

She continued on to college, getting a BA, summa cum laude, in philosophy. Her next endeavor was law school, and she practiced law after graduating, for five years, before realizing it was not the career she wanted.

She then tried a variety of activities, and explored many different areas, before someone’s video, needing music, landed in her lap, and she found a thrill in her work she’d never before experienced.

She went on to do the music for about 15 independent film videos, before she saw a poster advertising Hummie Mann’s Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. She entered and completed that program, going on to its final section for scoring a student film, and has up to this date done three films through it. She has found this program, and studying with Hummie Mann on these projects, invaluable. She continues to take classes in the program.

Her current work includes teaching piano to children and beginning adults, and continuing with her composition studies and endeavors.