Barbara Uhling has been playing the piano since she was seven. Her musical development began in Düsseldorf and took her through training with Jessamy Reynolds, Sharon Rhoten, Shoko Sugitani and Janet Holdorf to London to study piano with Colin Horsley at the Royal College of Music. There she graduated as a Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music in piano

and as Associate of the Royal College of Music in Piano Pedagogy. As a lecturer, she demonstrated her educational skills at the Kent Music School and at the Clara Schumann Music School in Düsseldorf.

She is also characterized by her versatile chamber music activities as a piano duo partner or as an accompanist to various instrumental soloists. In 2008 she founded the Duo Piancella with the cellist Diana Hies. In addition, her sensitive playing makes her a sought-after companion for vocal soloists as well as members of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein or the Städtische Bühnen Krefeld / Mönchengladbach and gives concerts with various choirs. In this context she took on solo piano parts such as in Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana” or in Steve Dobrogosz's Mass for choir, string orchestra and piano.

In 2013 she recorded a solo CD with romantic music by Hans Doetsch entitled "The vicious ballads and songs of François Villon". The project was created in collaboration with the composer.