Kaye Barker began her musical training at the Royal College of Music where she was a Junior Exhibitioner studying violin with Kenneth Piper. She read Music at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University followed by two years of postgraduate study at the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied violin with Dennis Simons.
She became a member of the BBC Philharmonic and after six years she left to join the Bridge Quartet with whom she worked for ten years. During this time the Quartet enjoyed its Wigmore Hall debut and recorded acclaimed CDs of the four quartets by Frank Bridge. They also performed on BBC Radio 3 and on Classic FM. Kaye freelanced with several other ensembles in London including the Philharmonia, Feinstein Ensemble and Garden Opera, which she led for several years.
Since 2000 Kaye has focused on teaching. She became Head of Strings for Ealing Music Service then gained her PGCE and became a classroom Music teacher. She was Head of Music for Gumley House Convent School for Girls, in Isleworth, West London from 2011 – 2018 and gained a Masters degree in Education in 2014. Her dissertation investigated the benefits of Dalcroze teaching for Year 7 students.
Her interest in Dalcroze Eurhythmics began in 2008 and she gained her Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics in 2012 and her Licence in Dalcroze Eurhythmics in February 2018.
In December 2021 Kaye completed the exams for the Diplôme Supérieur and graduated in June 2022. This is the top level in the method and Kaye is one of only five people in the UK to currently hold the qualification.
She has taught on the Suzuki Summer School and for Trinity Laban at their Saturday morning centre in Hampstead. She also enjoyed teaching at the Central School of Ballet for two terms. In January 2016 Kaye became teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on their String and Brass Training Programme, which takes place on Saturdays. She has taught on all the International Dalcroze Spring Courses & Summer Schools since 2016 & was the Artistic Director for the 2019 International Easter Course in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, which took place in Manchester, England.
Kaye has become a regular teacher for ProCorda, a chamber music course for talented string players and was coach and Dalcroze teacher in July 2019, 2022 & July 2023.
Kaye teaches regularly on the intensive Professional Certificate Course, which qualifies students to become Dalcroze teachers. She is on the faculty for the Dalcroze UK Intensive Teacher Training Course which takes place during eight monthly weekends in South East London and runs the weekly Dalcroze UK Teacher Training Programme in Ealing, West London. The rhythmics classes of this course are open to anyone who wishes to enjoy the method but not to train.
Kaye was the Course Leader for the Foundation and Intermediate Awards 2024 – 2025. She is the Course Leader for the Professional Certificate students at the Ealing Centre in 2025 – 2026.
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She performed with the London Dalcroze Plastique Ensemble at the First International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS1) and as a soloist at the Second International Conference (ICDS2) held in Vienna. She gave a paper at the Third International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS3) in Quebec City, Canada and a paper at the Fifth International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS5) held online in October 2021. She gave a paper on How to increase adult participation in Dalcroze Eurhythmics at ICDS6 in August 2023 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. She performed in a Plastique on the topic of Building Bridges at the ICDS7 in Luxembourg and also co-delivered a workshop.
Kaye has delivered one-off workshops around the country, including: sessions for Ealing Music Services (July 2023), Sussex School of Song (July 2023), Highgate School (June 2023), In Harmony at The Sage, Gateshead (April 2023) to name but a few. In the summers of 2024 & 2025 she gave Dalcroze sessions to children from primary schools for Playground Proms.
In October 2022 Kaye organised her first Dalcrozemoves Course and these have continued each October in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
In July 2025 Kaye organised a highly successful three-day Summer School.
Kaye was the international guest teacher at the Australian Dalcroze Summer School, which was held in Melbourne in January 2023. This was a joyful occasion and the first in-person Summer School organised by Dalcroze Australia since 2019. She was invited back and was delighted to teach on the Dalcroze Australia Course in January 2024. Before this she taught a 3-day short course in Singapore. She is excited to have been invited back to teach again in January 2026 preceded by workshops in Malaysia.
In August 2023 Kaye taught in Shanghai and this was her first visit to China. She returned to teach again in January 2024.
She believes passionately that Dalcroze Eurhythmics is necessary for a complete musical education.
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