Operatic singer, teacher, musical director and vocal trainer Norma Bowen,74, has passed at a nursing home last Friday.
A former student of St Paul’s Girl’s School and the Federal High School, she sang in both choirs and also sang with the St Michael’s Cathedral and All Angels, the Barbados Festival Choir, McGill University Singers and the McGill Opera Studio and Sine Nomine Singers.
Norma, who was the former director of the Barbados Festival Choir and the Community Mass Choir, studied music theory, piano and voice in Barbados and the McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
A Barbados Service Star awardee, she also set up the Springer Memorial School music department, where she retired from in 2015. She also served as a member of the board of the National Cultural Foundation and as a judge with the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts. (NS)