.::LYNN KLOCK
PROFESSOR OF SAXOPHONE

Lynn Klock is in demand as a soloist and Selmer clinician throughout the United States and abroad.  As a featured artist in Great Britain, the British and American Virgin Islands, Canada, and Poland, he has the distinction of being the first saxophonist to be presented on the Warsaw Philharmonic Recital Series in Warsaw, Poland.  His Carnegie Hall debut received great acclaim from Peter G Davis of the New York Times.   He has been a guest soloist with several professional orchestras and bands including the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, Belgian Air Force Band, West Point Band, and numerous university, community, and high school bands.  He has been a soloist or clinician at the English Saxophone Congress (Cardiff, Wales), MENC National Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, CBDNA National Conference, Texas Bandmasters Association Conference, and Western International Band Clinic.  His recordings can be heard on CRI, Gasparo, Open Loop, Mark, and Orion.

As an advocate for new music for his instrument, Mr. Klock has had several dozen works dedicated to him, including a work by recent Pulitzer Prize winner Lew Spratlan.  He has premiered works by other Pulitzer Prize composers including Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, and Michael Colgrass as part of the World Wide Commissioning Project.

Graduates of Mr. Klock’s saxophone program are having great success as performers and teachers.  They have won overseas competitions, received appointments to the military bands in Washington D.C. and West Point, and are members of professional saxophone quartets. His students are currently in tenure-track professorships at the University of Arizona, James Madison, Central Florida, Washington Jefferson, and SUNY Oswego. They have won top awards from Downbeat Magazine in the Jazz and Classical categories and have received graduate assistantships at schools including, Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan, Indiana University, University of Miami, Arizona State University, Ithaca, University of Minnesota, Bowling Green State University, Louisiana State University, University of Houston, Western Michigan, University of Arizona and Western Carolina University.

Mr. Klock is currently Professor of Saxophone at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is the saxophonist and bass clarinetist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.  Past saxophone teaching positions include the Interlochen National Music camp, The Hartt School of Music, University of Toledo, and Olivet College.  Since 1992, he has been a clinician for the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival and Summer Camp.
    
A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Interlochen Arts Academy, he is a student of Larry Teal, Donald Sinta, Jack Kripl, and William D. Revelli.

E-mail: lklock@music.umass.edu

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