John Lynch

John Lynch, director of bands and professor of music, 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. He 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 Winds 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. 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.

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. He holds degrees from Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.