Dr John Lynch is a leading international wind band conductor. He is the Director of Bands and Wind Symphony Conductor at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he guides all aspects of the band and graduate wind conducting programs, as well as serving as artistic director of the professional ensemble-in-residence: the Verbrugghen Ensemble.
Dr Lynch was previously Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Georgia. Other positions include those at the University of Kansas, Northwestern University, and Emory University. Dr. Lynch has also held positions as Music Director of the Chicago Northshore Concert Band, the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, and the Greater New York Wind Symphony (founder). He has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia including invited tours of China, Argentina, and Europe. He has three professional recordings on the Naxos label: Redline Tango (premiere recording in the Wind Band Classics Series); Millennium Canons: Looking Forward, Looking Back, Street Song, and Celebrare Celeberrime with the SCM Wind Symphony on the Klavier label.
Dr Lynch is a published composer through C. Alan Music and Maestro and Fox. Awards include The American Prize, the national recipient of the Stanbury Award for outstanding conducting and teaching, New York’s Big Apple Corps National Leadership in the Arts award, The University of Georgia Creative Research Medal, a Northwestern University Searle Fellow for Teaching Excellence, membership in the Emory Scholars Committee, finalist for the Hungarian Radio Conducting Competition, and elected membership in the American Bandmasters Association and Phi Beta Mu international band honor fraternity.
Performance invitations include the conferences of the American Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, National Association For Music Education, the Midwest Clinic, Le Festival des Anches d’Azur (France), the Jungfrau Festival (Switzerland), Kerkrade Festival (the Netherlands), and the Georgia and Kansas State Conventions. He has held residencies at the Conservatories in Vilinius, Lithuania, Alessandria, Italy, and the University of Costa Rica. Summer Festival conducting includes the International Festival in Santa Maria del Sol, Brazil, Verona’s Estivo Festival, Chicago Music for All Festival, Bands of America, and Interlochen. Guest conducting engagements include the United States Marine Band, Army Field Band, West Point Band, the national Concert Band of San Jose, Costa Rica, the Adelaide Wind Orchestra, and honor bands in Beijing, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Brisbane, and All-State bands throughout the United States.
Lynch is a passionate advocate for new music and has commissioned, recorded, and premiered works from around the globe by both today’s leading composers and young talent new to writing for the wind band medium. John Lynch holds degrees from Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.