Ysaye M. Barnwell
Lives in DC, United States
 DR. YSAYE M. BARNWELL
B.S. and MSEd,State University of New York, Geneseo, NY 1967,1968 (Speech Pathology)
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, Puttsburgh, PA 1975 (Speech Pathology)
M.S.P.H Howard University, Washington, DC 1981 (Public Health)
Ysaye M. Barnwell is a native New Yorker now living in Washington, DC where, since 1979, she has performed with Sweet Honey In The Rock.
Dr. Barnwell spends much of her time off stage working as a master teacher and choral clinician in cultural performance theory.
Her workshop, "Building a Vocal Community: Singing in the African American Tradition" has been conducted all over the United States,
Great Britain and Australia, for both singers and non-singers.
Dr. Barnwell has been a commissioned composer on numerous and varied dance, choral, film, video and stage productions.
In addition to these endeavors, Dr. Barnwell is Speech Pathologist, Public Health administrator/educator,and a confessed technology
junky. She is also an actress whose credits include voice-over narration in several films and videos,
a principle role on the television series "A Man Called Hawk" and an appearance in the film Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme.
She is producer of Sweet Honey's twenty-fifth anniversary recording, ...TWENTY-FIVE..., and editor of Continuum: The First Songbook of
Sweet Honey In The Rock, released March, 2000. Her first children's book, No Mirrors In My Nana's House, illustrated by Synthia Saint James
is published by Harcourt Brace, 1998. The second, WE ARE ONE... will be published by Harcourt in the spring of 2008. In October, 2000 -UM HMM- her recording of personal and traditional stories and songs was released for
children by Windhorse Productions on the Sounds True label. Dr. Barnwell can be heard narrating the documentary W.C. HANDY'S BLUES on www.wchandysblues.org.
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