Lynn Klock is currently Professor of Saxophone at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he has been a member of the faculty
since 1980. Recipient of B.M. and
M.M. degrees from the University of Michigan, Lynn Klock's teachers included
Lawrence Teal, Donald Sinta and Jack Kripl. A frequent soloist and recitalist throughout
the U.S. including a Music from Marlboro 1991 East Coast tour, he has toured
Poland, and the American and British Virgin Islands. Klock was the first
saxophonist to appear on the Warsaw Philharmonic Recital Series. He has been a
guest soloist with the Springfield (MA) and New Hampshire Symphonies, the West
Coast Chamber Orchestra, Wantastiquet Chamber Players, and many of the nation's
university bands.
A performer on
the Marlboro, Mohawk Trail, Monadnock, and North Country Chamber Music series,
he premiered works for saxophone written by Pulitzer Prize winning composers
Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, Lew Spratlan, and by composers Hsueh-Yung
Shen, Salvatore Macchia and Catherine McMichael. A member of the Springfield
Symphony Orchestra, he has recorded for CRI, Orion, Mark and Open Loop. He also
has served on the faculties of the University of Toledo, Olivet College and the
Hartt School of Music.
Mr. Klock will be performing Samuel Hazo’s “Saxophone Concerto” with the Tri-County Symphonic Band on Sunday, March 20, 2011.