Barbara Bridge

Barbara Bridge has been involved in music ministry for many years as a cantor, soloist, choir director, composer, and OCP event presenter. She received her bachelor of music degree from Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles in 1984. She served as cantor at the Papal Mass in Los Angeles in 1987 and several years at various events such as the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress and National Association of Pastoral Musicians Convention.

Barbara has spent most of her energy over the past 20 years raising her three children while also working, singing and composing. She has contributed her voice and several of her compositions to two recent collections by Bob Hurd, A Lenten Journey and One with the Risen Lord.

Since moving to Portland, Oregon in 1989, Barbara expanded her music ministry to include Taizé prayer. Over the past 16 years, she has provided music for Taizé prayer in churches and retreat centers of various denominations. Her most recent compositions are included in the 135-song collection, Hear the Prayers That Rise, a resource for bringing people of various faith traditions together in contemplative prayer through song and silence.