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Lynn Job (pronounced with a long "o") (b. 1959), is an American woman composer, poet, publisher, scholar and thespian born on the great plains of South Dakota with an active commissions roster. Her performances are surveyed by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) and she owns and publishes through Buckthorn Music Press "New Music for Concert and Broadcast," an elected member of the Music Publishers Association of the United States.

Lynn Job produces works in a wide range of new classical and soundscape genres, both acoustic and electronic (an active touring member of Vox Novus, NYC), and traditional concert and modern media. Click here for reviews.

Dr. Job is represented by Buckthorn Studios "New Creations in Music, Literature and Performance," with many professional societal affiliations often seen at national and international academic conferences and residencies. Follow news = Twitter.com/BthornStudios

She graduated from California State University Fullerton (CSUF) and finished her graduate studies at the University of North Texas College of Music (UNT) spending summers touring and working in Eurasia. She also served in the U. S. Army Reserves Signal Corps during the Persian Gulf War and was a full-time professional radar logistician at Texas Instruments for over 10 years.

A good summary bio article came out in 2008 by Antony Corcoran - see it in PDF here. BIO page | Here |
Full arts vita (.pdf) |Here |

Most of Job's 100+ music titles to date are large-scale theist works with pre-compositional designs that required years of background research interesting to musicologists, music theorists, and theologians.

Acting on her passion for adventure, Job found artifacts for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem as a member of the 1989 Judean Desert Exploration and Excavation Project at the Dead Sea (Cave 37) (published in Biblical Archaeology Review). This Qumran expedition experience still informs and inspires much of her creative work, including her largest work-in-progress, publishing in sections, "ELATIO: Praises & Prophecies" (tenor & contralto soloists, men's & women's choruses, & reduced orchestra featuring celesta and vibraphone). Recent work drawing on this programmatic background is "Anchored in Perath: an apocalypse" (BMP no. 88, 2006) - a graphic score for solo organ (18x24-inch color poster, signed, limited edition). This piece, with 167 others, is included in "Notations 21 - an anthology of innovative musical notation" (New York: Mark Batty Publisher, 2008). Ships April 2009, available at Barnes & Noble + Amazon.

When not using ancient texts, Dr. Job often integrates her own original poetry into her scores which imposes programmatic form into the composition. Such occurs in the recent BMP no. 88 title above. (Ref: read her invited publication in Living Music Journal (Vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 2006, ed. Carson Cooman), "Cups with Saucers: Impressionistic Strata Within Job's Mixed Poetics."

This composer continues to win awards from the American Music Center, ASCAP, and other institutions, and is chosen for publication amid various fields. She served 3 terms as the composer member of the regional College Music Society Board of Directors, the 2007 Thailand International CMS Conference Chair of Composition Selections, and served on the CMS National Advisory Committee for Composition (2007-2009), among other appointments. For lighter work, she has had several commissions in new musical theater (Dallas, TX and Westminster, CA) and performed/stage directed multiple seasons for Denton Community Theatre (nationally ranked, top honors).

In May, 2001 Lynn Job assisted multi-national exchange students at the Taiwan College of Arts in Taipei/Panchiao, Taiwan studying Chinese folk instruments and culture to provide a means to research her own recent orchestral works. From 2000-2007 she worked in administration at the College of Music, University of North Texas. 3 semesters (during 2007-2008) she taught transferable core arts curriculum as an adjunct instructor for music appreciation and history at North Central Texas College (NCTC), Corinth.

A list with links for her current new music commissions and requested writing projects at Buckthorn Music Press are here. For details about her exciting work as a Judeo-Christian poet, click to Buckthorn Books here.

The Buckthorn Music Press sales catalog is updated monthly for printout in PDF format. Click here.

Much more! such as a full vita, works in progress, her upcoming appearances schedule, performances and credits, are all on the main website listed at left. Also many more links over there, including such as:
www.MySpace.com/buckthornstudios ,
Sigma Alpha Iota Updates, -and-
The Fund for Women Artists
to mention a few.