Barbara Heller has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 8 June 2024. Songs played include Lalai – Schlaflied Zum Wachwerden?.

Barbara Heller ( born November 6, 1936 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German composer and pianist. She lives in Darmstadt, in the Odenwald, and at times on the Canary Island of La Gomera. Life Her father Eugene Heller was a restorer of Sacred Art. After the family home was bombed in 1943, the family moved to Hammelbach circle mountain road. In 1948 she returned to Ludwigshafen in 1949, she moved to Mannheim, later Barbara Heller moved to Cologne and Darmstadt. Barbara Heller studied music in Mannheim and Munich. From 1958 to 1962 she was a piano teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. Composition studies with Hans Vogt, Harald Genzmer and a short scholarship for film music in Siena, as well as several scholarships to the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt followed. Important professional positions continued administration of the estate of the Darmstadt composers Hermann Heiss and from 1986 on the board of the Darmstadt Institute for New Music and Music Education. By 1990, Heller operation always active dissemination of works by composers as a pianist.