Colin Lynch plays works by Widor, Saint-Saens, Wright, Thalben-Ball and Duruflé on the Great Organ for the 2020 Fall Scholarship Fund Recital.
Colin Lynch, hailed as "an impeccable performer with compelling musicality and technical command" (The American Organist Magazine), maintains a busy performance career that has taken him to prominent venues throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Europe and South Africa. At the invitation of the Cuban government, he traveled to Cuba as a featured performer and lecturer at the Ars Longa Baroque Music Festival. In recent years, he has been a featured performer at national
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Colin Lynch, hailed as “an impeccable performer with compelling musicality and technical command” (The American Organist Magazine), maintains a busy performance career that has taken him to prominent venues throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Europe and South Africa. At the invitation of the Cuban government, he traveled to Cuba as a featured performer and lecturer at the Ars Longa Baroque Music Festival. In recent years, he has been a featured performer at national conventions of both the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians.
Mr. Lynch serves as Associate Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston. Previously, he has held positions at Christ & Holy Trinity Church in Westport, CT, Marquand Chapel of the Yale Divinity School, the Episcopal Church at Yale, and as organ scholar at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago. As Director of Chapel Music and School Organist at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, he led the choirs on multiple national and international tours and produced two commercially available recordings.
He earned an Artist Diploma from Oberlin Conservatory, studying with James David Christie and Olivier Latry. He holds a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance studying with Thomas Murray at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music, and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from Northwestern University, where he studied with Douglas Cleveland. His critically acclaimed debut solo compact disc, “The Organ of Stambaugh Auditorium” is available on the Raven label.
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