He currently teaches at the Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey, and has written for Acoustic Guitar magazine.
from the University of Hartford Hartt School, and graduate courses at Hunter College (NYC) in ethnomusicology, Villa Schifanoia (Rosary College), in Florence, Italy and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, the film music seminar with Ennio Morricone.
Barbera was also commissioned by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City to compose the Opera: Stabat Mater-Donna Di Paradiso.
(2006);[8] Children of Fate (1992),[9] nominated for a Best Documentary Feature Academy Award[10] and winner of the 1993 Sundance Film Festival; La Festa, (1998); Tarantella, (1997);[11] and Neapolitan Heart (2002).
[12] La Barbera has been credited for multiple off-Broadway theater productions as musical director.