Since her 1982 Carnegie Recital Hall debut, Lynn Rice-See has appeared as recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician in the United States and in Europe. She has appeared three times with the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In the United States she has appeared as soloist with the Gulf Coast Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, the Johnson City Symphony, and the Kingsport Symphony. In 1992, she appeared in recital in Brussels, sponsored by the Ministere de la Communauté Français, and her 1993 recital tour of Germany was sponsored by the German-American Institute in Saarbrücken. She was a member of the Tennessee Arts Commission touring roster from 1991 through 1994.
She holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Walter Hautzig, the Master of Music from The Juilliard School where she studied with Beveridge Webster, and the Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California, where she studied with John Perry. Currently she coaches with Walter Hautzig and Sheila Paige. From 1989-2005 she was a member of the piano faculty at East Tennessee State University. She is currently professor of piano at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
She has also worked as an opera coach/assistant conductor at the opera houses of Münster and Essen, Germany as well as at Michigan Opera and Dayton Opera in the United States. Prior to that, she taught at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and at William Carey College.
In celebration of the Tennessee bicentennial she and mezzo-soprano Sharon Mabry issued a compact disk on the Heartdance label of works by Tennessee composers. Her new cd, “Evocacion” will be available from Americus CD www.americuscd.com in fall 2007. This recording will include European piano works from the twenty years prior to World War I.
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