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Upcoming Concert

American Impessionism

June 28, 2009
2:00 PM

Dr. John Lynch, conductor


artwork by Mark Frossard

The upcoming "American Impressionism" performance will be held at the St. Francis Auditorium of the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Admission is free to the public – donations are gratefully accepted at the door.


On the Concert

A Musical Toast by Leonard Bernstein, arr. Clare Grundman

Hoe Down from "Rodeo" by Aaron Copland, arr. Mark Rogers

Dusk by Steven Bryant

Southern Harmony by Donald Grantham

Selections from "The Sound of Music" by Richard Rodgers, arr. Buckley

The Engulfed Cathedral by Claude Debussy, arr. Merlin Patterson

Undertow by John Mackey

Chamber Music Series

September 18, 2009
7:30 PM

Stories for Children
Young & Old

Through the generosity of the

St. John's United Methodist Church


 

2009 Concert
Season


The 2009 Concordia Santa Fe concert season will include three full ensemble concerts and three chamber music concerts.


artwork by Mark Frossard

Guest Conductor

Dr. John Lynch


This is John Lynch's return engagement with Concordia Santa Fe. 

John Lynch is the new Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Georgia where he will guide 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 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.  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 and Ohio.

 

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