She is a violinist who studied on a scholarship at the Juilliard School and earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. While taking those studies she was a winner of Dallas Symphony’s G.B. Dealey International Competition, and also won the Charles Petschek Scholarship and a scholarship to study at Salzurg’s Mozarteum from the Austrian American Society.
She debuted at the Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra and began to perform as a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1982. She has performed in many concerts nationally and internationally and aside from performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra has been heard with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Dallas and Delaware Symphonies and The Emerson Quartet. She holds the Wilson H. and Barbara B. Taylor Chair in the Philadelphia Orchestra and won their C. Hartman Kuhn Award in 2012.
Performing in many musical festivals, she became Music Director of the Delaware Music Festival in 1990. She has also been a member of Amerita Chamber Players and served as Music Director of the Hildegard Chamber Players.
In the recording studio she has been heard on albums that include The Walls Are Quiet Now (A Holocaust Remembrance Trilogy) with the Hildegard Chamber Players and Peter Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique” by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In the field of musical education she has held private classes in Philadelphia, master classes at several American universities and has been on the advisory boards of the Music School of Delaware and the Astral Artists.
Sources:
- http://www.pomusicians.org/barbara-govatos.html
- https://philadelphiamusicfestival.org/our-faculty/strings/barbara-govatos/
- https://www.philorch.org/your-philorch/meet-your-orchestra/musicians/barbara-govatos/
- https://www.instantencore.com/contributor/bio.aspx?CId=5041182
- https://www.aisphila.org/players.html
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/4625592-Barbara-Govatos?type=Credits&filter_anv=0