University of Georgia
Thursday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.
John P. Lynch, conductor
PROGRAM
Kristin Kuster: LOST GULCH LOOKOUT (9’30”) (composer)
Zechariah Goh Toh Chai: CONCERTO FOR MARIMBA AND WIND ENSEMBLE (12’40”) (Zechariah Music)
Joseph Schwanter: AND THE MOUNTAINS RISING NOWHERE (11’30”) (Helicon Music)
Claude Debussy/trans. Patterson: LA CATHEDRALE ENGLOUTIE (6’30”) (Manhattan Beach)
Carter Pann: THE WRANGLER (7’45”) (Theodore Presser)
Wayne Oquin: TOWER ASCENDING (8’) (composer)
JOHN P. LYNCH
John Lynch is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Georgia where he guides all aspects of the band and graduate wind conducting programs. Previous positions include Director of Bands at the University of Kansas, Associate Director of Bands at Northwestern University and Director of Instrumental Music at Emory University. Dr. Lynch has also held positions as Music Director of the Northshore Concert Band and the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, and he is the founder of the KU/Kansas City Youth Wind Symphony and the Orange County Music Educators Wind Ensemble. He has ten years of public high school teaching experience in New York State as Director of Bands at Monroe-Woodbury High School where he was the national recipient of the Stanbury award for outstanding teaching and conducting and the William Revelli Award.
John Lynch has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, and toured China with the KU Wind Ensemble as a guest of the Chinese government. His first professional recording “Redline Tango” was awarded a contract with the Naxos recording label, and his second disc “Millennium Canons” with the UGA Wind Ensemble will be released soon on Naxos. An advocate for new music, he has commissioned and recorded numerous new works for winds and has received grants to research contemporary wind band and chamber music in Scandinavia, Spain and Portugal. Dr. Lynch is an active clinician and a published composer through C. Alan Music. His performances have been broadcast throughout the nation on Chicago’s WFMT, Peachstate Public Radio and on public radio in Kansas, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Colorado, Wisconsin, Ohio and Georgia.
Awards include a Northwestern Searle Fellow for Teaching Excellence, membership in the Emory Scholars Committee, finalist for the Hungarian Radio Conducting Competition, participation in the Symphonic Conducing Workshop in Slovakia, a residency at the Lithuanian Music Academy, and membership in Phi Beta Mu international band honor fraternity. Performances include the MENC National Convention, Kansas Music Educators Association Convention, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Le Festival des Anches d’Azur in France, and honor bands in Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. He has been invited to conduct the all-state bands of Texas, New York, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Indiana. John Lynch holds degrees from Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Professional affiliations include the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Music Educators National Convention, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Phi Beta Mu. He holds honorary memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, and was elected president of the Big XII Band Directors Association and vice president of the College Band Directors National Association Southwest Division.