Barbara Barry: Professor of Musicology at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University. She has five degrees in music and two in piano performance from Trinity College of Music, London, and three in music history and theory from the University of London, including PhD awarded ""magna cum laude"". Prior coming to the United States, Barbara Barry was on the music faculty of the Music Department at University of London Goldsmiths College and Chair of Music History at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, one of Europe's foremost conservatories in the Barbican Arts Center in London. She has been Chair of Music History at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and taught at Clark University, New England Conservatory of Music, the Radcliffe Seminars and at Harvard University. A trained pianist in the Leschetizky tradition, Barbara Barry is the author of five books, as well as many articles on music history. She has been awarded two Fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fran Steinberg Memorial Prize for outstanding non-fiction, and was the first recipient of the Kathleen Cheek-Milby Endowed Faculty Fellowship at Lynn University. She is also a noted writer of young people's fantasy fiction with the books The Firestone and Mephisto's Revenge.