Barry Green, served as Principal Bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for 28 years, and more recently Principal Bassist of the California Symphony and Sun Valley Idaho Summer Symphony.

As former Executive Director of the International Society of Bassists, he taught at the University of California Santa Cruz for 22 years before moving back to Cincinnati in the spring of 2018. Green is currently teaching at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio and in the Sycamore and Princeton Public school systems in Cincinnati. As a double bass soloist, Barry is known for his creative and eclectic 'Green Machine’ concerts including the bass in jazz, folk, contemporary and world music in combination with, dance, voice, art and theater. He is the author of the Doubleday book The Inner Game of Music, with W. Timothy Gallwey, (1986) which highlights musicians reaching their potential in performance and learning which has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.