Ensemble de la Belle Musique Christmas Concert 2019

Lynn’s piece, “Snowfall,” will be performed by the Ensemble de la Belle Musique on December 1st,  2019 at 7:30 P.M.  In this piece, the first snowflakes fall gently over the winter landscape, soon followed by fierce, swirling snow and then a full-blown blizzard. The snow becomes a thick blanket over the earth where nothing is heard apart…

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Brussels Perfomance, 15 November 2019

  The Osmose Intermezzo clarinet and cello duet will be performing one minute of “The Little Buffalo” at 8:00 P.M.  The concert will be held at the Centre Culturel l’Entrela’, rue de Paris 43 à 1140 Evere – Bruxelles. I hope to see you there! Here’s a link to the Osmose Intermezzo: https://danbaas.wordpress.com/category/actualites/  

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Clarinet Recital, Chicago, 2019

Lynn’s Little Buffalo Clarinet Duo has been selected for a Chicago recital in 2019 by clarinetist Emily Mehigh. A classical and contemporary clarinettist and teacher, Emily Mehigh explores all the boundaries of clarinet playing through numerous performances and outreach events. While she enjoys evoking the wide range of emotions from the Romantic Era, she also enjoys…

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Ensemble de la Belle Musique

Lynn’s string quartet, “Songbirds,” has been selected to be performed on Thursday, 30th May 2019 for EBM’s “Beauty” concert at Esplanade Recital Studio in Singapore. The objective of the competition was “to write music so beautiful and pleasant to the ears that the musicians would love to play them over and over again and the…

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“Trumpetoon” Competition First Prize

Lynn has won first prize in the Minute of Music “Trumpetoon” competition, 2019.  The term, “Trumpetoon,” refers to a duet for trumpet and bassoon.  Her piece, The Little Buffalo, was selected.   Here’s what the founder of the competition, Jason Taurins, said about the contest: “It was designed to promote the writing of new music…

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Cypress Winds Clarinet Quartet

The Cypress Winds Clarinet Quartet of Cypress, Texas, has just announced that Lynn has won second prize for her clarinet quartet, “Dawn Chorus.”  The quartet is written for three Bb clarinets and one bass clarinet.  Dawn Chorus is one movement of the “Birdsong Suite” which Lynn is currently composing.The Cypress Clarinet Quartet will be appearing…

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The Little Buffalo Suite

This past summer I was a Composition Fellow at the Wyoming Festival.   One day we spotted a herd of bison.  A little buffalo ignored the big, shaggy, grunting, foraging herd and galloped across the prairie.  I just had to compose some music about the little buffalo.   I originally wrote the music for Stephanie Zelnick,…

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