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Composers BureauLynn JobBiography
Dr. Job graduated from California State University Fullerton & the University of North Texas spending summers in Europe, and was decorated in the U. S. Army Reserve Signal Corps during the Persian Gulf War. She had distinguished past careers in technical writing, radar support engineering, and college staff administration. She continues to win program support and awards from the American Music Center & ASCAP, and is often requested as a professional interdisciplinary guest lecturer and composer-in-residence. Lynn Job is the founding artist and executive director of Buckthorn Studios (ref: www.buckthornstudios.com ) and her music publishes exclusively through a division company Buckthorn Music Press (an ASCAP World Member Publisher) currently headquartered in the North Texas metroplex. Her music can be searched by keywords or instrumentation at the American Music Center in NYC (ref: www.newmusicjukebox.org). Many of Job’s more than one-hundred music titles to date are large-scale mystic works with detailed pre-compositional designs that required years of background research and planning making her of interest to musicologists, theorists and theologians alike - the subject of several articles. However, all forms are represented in her catalog from electronica collage miniatures to rhapsodic, romantic acoustic solos - staged musicals to faux-baroque choral worship pieces. She often embeds original poetry into her scores as a mixed-media concept expression. Three residencies stand out as particularly inspiring to her work. In May, 2001 she assisted author Gene Cho's exchange students at the Taiwan College of Arts in Taipei/Panchiao, Taiwan studying Chinese folk instruments and culture. And acting on her passion for adventure, Dr. Job found artifacts for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem as a member of the 1989 Judean Desert Exploration and Excavation Project at the Dead Sea (published in Biblical Archaeology Review). This Qumran expedition experience still informs and inspires much of her creative work, including her mystic poetry and her largest music work in progress, publishing in sections, ELATIO: Praises & Prophecies (tenor & contralto soloists, men's & women's choruses, & reduced orchestra featuring celesta and vibraphone). Her time in Ireland (1999) as a guest poet is appearing more and more in her music’s place and culture references. Peformances
Recordings May, 2007 (NYC) - "The Double Album" (Vox Novus 2004-2005) - includes Job's "Lily" -- licensed by Buckthorn Records and Buckthorn Music Press Further InformationFor further information about Lynn Job, please visit her website at www.buckthornstudios.com Contact InformationBuckthorn Studios |
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Lynn Job (pronounced with a long "o") (b. 1959) is an American woman composer, scholar, poet and thespian born on the great plains of South Dakota. She is an emerging composer with an active commissions roster and many professional societal affiliations and appointments including editorial boards. She is often seen at national and international academic conferences and arts residencies & she is scheduled for several concert music premieres & broadcasts in Europe and the U.S. annually. Among her many honors, she attended a 4-day festival of her works Jubilantly Job! Music Festival at the U. of Central Oklahoma, February 7-10, 2003, held by faculty & clinicians from both coasts presenting 18 of her titles. She is listed in the 2005 & 2006 Marquis Who's Who of American Women (24th & 25th eds.), the 2006 Marquis Who's Who in the World (23rd ed.), as well as in several on-line international composer databases with more citations releasing monthly.