Monica Lynn facts for kids
Monica Lynn is an American composer. A composer is someone who writes music. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. Her music has been performed all over the world.
Her Education
Monica Lynn studied music at several universities. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin. There, she learned from teachers like Stefan Kostka and David Neumeyer.
She continued her studies at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She worked with famous composers such as Chen Yi and Zhou Long. Later, she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her teachers there included David Cope and Peter Elsea. While studying for her degree, she also taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Awards and Recognition
Monica Lynn has received many awards and honors for her musical talent and studies. These awards helped her continue her education and create new music.
Some of her recognitions include:
- Awards from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
- Fellowships like the Lindsay and Brian Shea Fellowship
- Scholarship awards from universities and music institutes
- Grants to support her research and compositions
- Being selected as a composer for special programs, like "Summer in Sombor" in Serbia
These awards show how much her work is valued in the music world.
Her Music
Monica Lynn has composed many different types of musical pieces. She writes music for various instruments and groups. Some of her selected works include:
- Unole Dayai, for a small group of musicians
- Le synchronisme, for solo harp
- The Words Under the Words, for a chorus singing without instruments
- Taiheiyo, for the Japanese koto, a stringed instrument
- Mirror Images, for a string quartet (four string instruments)
- Sylvia, for flute and piano
- Anabatic, for a chamber orchestra (a smaller orchestra)
- Rejuvenancient, for a small group of musicians
- Ye Xiang Gu, for Chinese gu-zheng (a stringed instrument) and Western percussion
- Sylvia, for flute and marimba
- Half-moon Rising, for a percussion quartet (four percussion players)
- Han-ji, for the Korean gayageum, a stringed instrument
- Breaking Symmetry, for a wind ensemble (a group of wind instruments)
- Sylvia Silenced, for a marimba duo (two marimba players)
- Symmetry, for a chamber orchestra
- Escaping Constraint, for a percussion quartet
- Balloons, for solo marimba
- Soliloquy, for solo clarinet
- Crosstalk, a duet for flute and clarinet
- After Words, for solo flute
- Sylvia Silenced, for solo piano
- Metal Raindrops, an electronic music piece
- Chaos, an electronic music piece
- Submerged, an electronic music piece
