Bassoonist Sue Barber serves as professor at James Madison University School of Music and is a member of the faculty quintet The Bluestone Winds. Sue joined the artist/teaching faculty of the Brevard Music Festival in 2004 and serves as associate principal bassoon of the festival orchestra in Brevard, North Carolina. An active freelance bassoonist regionally, Sue performs regularly with Opera on the James, The Roanoke Symphony, and Opera Roanoke. She has performed and presented master classes throughout the North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. She was also appointed as visiting professor at The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, teaching applied bassoon and presenting master classes during the 2012 and 2014-15 academic years. Conference performances include International Double Reed Society Conventions, The Virginia Music Educator’s Annual Conference, The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL, The International Alliance for Women in Music's Annual Concert of Chamber Music by Women at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and The National Flute Association Conventions in Washington, DC and New York, New York.

As an orchestral musician, Sue has performed with many of the leading artists of our time at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center. She held the positions of assistant principal bassoon of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, principal bassoon of the Natchez Opera, and principal bassoon of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and she has held the principal bassoon positions with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra, The Connecticut Opera, and The Sarasota Opera.

Internationally she served as assistant principal bassoon of Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia (Spain). She was also a regular performer with the New Haven Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Florida West Coast Symphony Orchestra (Sarasota), Santa Fe Chamber Orchestra, and participated in the National Repertory Orchestra Festival, and the Banff and Sarasota Chamber Music Festivals.