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Lyn Schenbeck has her Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education and Master of Science degree in Music Education and Voice Performance from SUNY Potsdam, Crane School of Music, and her doctorate in Choral and Instrumental conducting from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She has performed extensively as a singer and conductor throughout the United States and Europe.
Dr. Schenbeck is the published author of a number of articles in the Choral Journal (American Choral Directors Association), the Journal of the Conductors Guild, the Journal of Experiential Education, and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. She is Editor of Choral Music Reviews for the Choral Journal, where she also serves on the Editorial Board.
Dr. Schenbeck has written liner notes for the past eighteen years for companies such as ProArte, ProJazz, Quintessence, Intersound, Platinum Entertainment, and most recently, CC’nC Records in Germany. She has just completed CD liner notes for the recently released Dead Symphony, a piece written by Lee Johnson based on the music of the Grateful Dead.
Throughout her 40-year career, Dr. Schenbeck has taught music at every level from Kindergarten through college and adults. Prior to moving to Newnan, she was Director of Choral and Orchestral Activities at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, where she taught 2 choirs, the orchestra, and classes in musical theatre history and performance.
She is currently in the process of completing a major project for the National Endowment for the Humanities to reconstruct Shuffle Along, an African-American musical from 1921. She holds a contract with the American Musicological Society’s series Music of the United States of America, published by A-R Editions, for a critical edition of Shuffle Along, lyrics by Noble Sissle, music by Eubie Blake. The volume is due to be published in academic year 2009-2010.
Dr. Schenbeck has conducted and/or performed in more than forty musicals with a variety of professional companies and educational institutions. She is the founder and conductor of the Centre Strings, a student/community orchestra that rehearses at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts during the academic year. Dr. Schenbeck also teaches Strings and General Music at Smokey Road Middle School. Next year she will become Director of the Arts for the Central Educational Center, a work-based charter school.
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