Barbara Lambrecht became marching band director and visiting instructor at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in August of 2005 after forty years of teaching band at the secondary level in Texas and New Mexico. At UMHB Barbara directed the marching band and taught music education classes.

Before joining the faculty at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Mrs. Lambrecht taught band with her husband Rick at Oñate High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico. While at Oñate, Barbara and Rick's bands were named AAAA State Champions in the New Mexico Activities Association's State Concert Band Festival every year, and were selected New Mexico State Honor Band in 2002. The Oñate marching band also garnered many awards including twice being chosen recipient of the NMSU's Greg Randall Award for the highest score of any New Mexico band, regardless of class. Oñate's Royal Knight Regiment was selected the New Mexico representative to the National Independence Day Parade in Washington, D. C.

Before becoming a "border jumper," Barbara taught in El Paso, Texas at Morehead Middle School where she taught band, coached the winds in the school orchestra and served as a member of the school's Campus Improvement Team. Barbara's Morehead Band performed in 1994 at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic/Convention. Prior to teaching at Morehead, she was head band director at Hanks High School in El Paso. Previous experience includes teaching band in Arlington, Texas, at Gunn Junior High where her band was selected as one of the four first recipients of the Sudler Cup of Excellence, a national award presented by the John Philip Sousa Foundation to "Junior High Bands of Exceptional Merit." A few years earlier in Seymour, Texas, her band was selected as State Honor Band in its class; and in Ralls, Texas Barbara's band won Best in Class and the Grand Sweepstakes at Buccaneer Days Festival.

Mrs. Lambrecht's bands have been selected for numerous honors in addition to those listed above. Bands under her direction have been named "Outstanding Band" at Six Flags Over Texas, Heritage San Diego Music Festival, Greater Southwest Music Festival, Director's Choice competition in San Antonio, and Buccaneer Days Band Festival in Corpus Christi, to name a few.

Mrs. Lambrecht adjudicates state and local competitions in numerous states and has conducted honor groups across the south and southwest and All State groups as far away as Hawaii. Active also as a performer, she plays flute and teaches a small studio of private flute students. Barbara also presents in-service clinics for public schools, colleges and universities, and has presented clinics at statewide music meetings in many states.

Honored numerous times by her colleagues, Mrs. Lambrecht has been the recipient of Tau Beta Sigma's national Outstanding Service to Music Award, the Texas Chamber of Commerce Cultural Award, National Band Association Achievement Award, Texas Music Educators Association Achievement Award, and twice had her "day" proclaimed by the city council. Most recently she was chosen as one of the 2000 Outstanding Musicians of the 20th Century and named to Who's Who of American Women.

In addition to her school duties, Mrs. Lambrecht writes for and serves as Contributing Editor for The Instrumentalist. Her articles have also been published in several other professional journals as well as bicycling magazines. She is the author of three books, one of which served as a textbook for 6th grade social studies students at Morehead Middle School, and another which is due to be published soon by Southern Music Company, entitled So Your Child Wants to Join the Band, a handbook for rookie parents of band students. She also writes and arranges music for band and for brass quintet. This past spring two of her pieces won First Place in the Barclay Arts and Music Competition, and she has an arrangement of Billy Joel's Air (Dublinesque) due to be published by Hal Leonard this summer.

She is married to Richard Lambrecht, principal horn in El Paso Symphony and horn teacher at University of Texas at El Paso, mother to Chris Prentice, actor and composer, and step-mother to Chris Lambrecht, band director in Spring, Texas and Rick Lambrecht, Jr., teacher in El Paso.