Michael DiBarry, DMA
Adjunct Faculty
Department: Performing Arts
Contact Information
Campus: Main
Office Number: MU1-117
Email: michael.dibarry@gccaz.edu
Phone number: (623) 845-3333
Bio
Biography
Performer and educator Dr. Michael DiBarry (he/him) performs across the U.S. and Canada on both violin and viola. He is based in Phoenix, Arizona where he serves as the orchestra director and instructor of violin and viola at Glendale Community College. His community teaching includes work with both Rosie’s House Music Academy and Harmony Project Phoenix. A recent invited guest of the Emerging Artists Concerts Series with Jeunesses Musicales Canada and a former teaching artist with Sistema New Brunswick in Canada, Michael performs with the Arizona Philharmonic in Prescott as acting associate concertmaster as well as across the Phoenix Valley.
Michael received his Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University where he was a member of the in-residence fellowship ensemble, the Herberger String Quartet. He founded the chamber music series Oakmont Musicivic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received the Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts for composing a Yiddish song cycle, and pioneered microtonal violin pedagogy that bridges the gap between Western and Middle Eastern ear training. Michael received his Master of Music from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a Bachelor of Music from McGill University in Montreal.