"About Lynn Job" by Antony Corcoran
Sigma Alpha Iota Composers Bureau (Lynn Job)
American Music Center - member page (Lynn Job) (includes MP3s)
Vox Novus - member page (Lynn Job) click on "composers"
Classical Composers Database - (Lynn Job)
Living Composers Project - (Lynn Job)
South Central Music Bulletin - interview - pages 29-42, IV/1 Fall 2005
Download (1.5 MB / PDF-file) 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 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, traditional concert and modern media.
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Dr. Job is an independent emerging composer, 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.
She graduated from California State University Fullerton and finished her graduate studies at the University of North Texas College of Music 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 for over 10 years.
A good summary bio article came out Winter/Spring 2008 by Antony Corcoran - see it in PDF here.
Most of Job's 100+ music titles to date are large-scale mystic works with pre-compositional designs that required years of background research which interest musicologists, 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) featured, along with an essay, in Notations21 - a 21st century anthology of innovative notation (New York: Mark Batty Publisher, Theresa Sauer Tisano, ed., 2008).
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."
An active writer, Lynn Job was poet-in-residence in County Clare, Ireland (April, 1999): a month at Salmon Publishing by the Cliffs of Moher (published by the U. of Mary Hardin-Baylor) traveling and meeting many of Ireland's finest poets at the Tinity College Dublin Symposium "The Muse and the Mirror," later particpating in the 2002 "Teaching Poetry: a symposium for poets & teachers" in Santa Rosa, California with NEA Chair, Dana Gioia.
This composer continues to win awards from the American Music Center, ASCAP, and other institutions and is chosen for publication across various disciplines. She presently serves on the College Music Society National Advisory Committee for Composition, among other affiliations. 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.
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. 2000-2007 she worked full-time in administration at the College of Music, University of North Texas. Since 2006, she remains an adjunct instructor for music appreciation at North Central Texas College, Corinth, and, Executive Director at Buckthorn Studios.
A list with links for her current new music commissions and requested writing projects are here. For details about her exciting work as a mystic poet, click 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 this website.
Among other places, her music can be best searched by keywords, by instrumentation, and can be sorted by several methods at the American Music Center in New York.
She currently makes her home in the North Texas metroplex.
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(photo: Job at Qumran, 1989)
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