Barbara Irene Bennett finished Piano Performance at Adventist University of the Philippines. She also completed her graduate studies with honors at Andrews University (Berrien Springs, Michigan) where she received a Master of Music degree in Music Education, with a specialization in Organ. 

She taught briefly at the Adventist University of the Philippines as music theory and piano instructor for the collegiate level. Several years later, she received a call to serve at Central Philippine Adventist College where she taught music history, music education and church worship classes. 

Currently, Irene serves as a missionary with Philippines Adventist Medical Aviation Services (PAMAS) with her husband who serves as a missionary pilot. She is also a Suzuki piano teacher and runs an online piano studio that caters to many students from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Middle East. 

Aside from being an online teacher, she is also a recording artist. Her two albums are a specialized curation of Adventist music with regards to prophetic messages (Line Upon Line Prophetic Hymns, 2016) and the second coming of Jesus (Almost Home: Hymns on the Second Coming of Jesus, 2018). 

Her other online efforts consist of creating content for an educational and religious blog called Hymns for Worship.

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