Barbara Raedeke teaches organ at Washington University and serves as Organist and Choir Director at Parkway United Church of Christ.
Barbara has been a faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University and Lindenwood University and is active as a recitalist, teacher, and church musician. She has performed with the St. Louis Symphony Brass Quintet, the Bach Society of St. Louis, the St. Louis Philharmonic, and Washington University Opera. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree in church music from Valparaiso University, where she studied organ with William Eifrig and Philip Gehring. She continued her organ studies in Paris, France with André Marchal, and subsequently completed the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the Eastman School of Music, where her organ teacher was Russell Saunders. She is a past dean of the St. Louis chapter of the American Guild of Organists.