steVen Lynch-composer/pianist

Composer, pianist, songwriter/arranger Steven Lynch began performing at late night road house jam sessions when he was 10 years old with veteran blues and jazz musicians. At 12 he made a major debut in Albany, N.Y. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremonies before an audience of 4000 and live television, concluding the day before the Governor's address with a five movement piano work including archival recording excerpts of King's powerful orations. Since then Steven has performed his music at major concert halls and festivals. He attended Manhattan School of Music for a bit until coming to an understanding of musical art as an intuitive and personal experience only to be realized through individual, auto-didactic work. In his own words, "One cannot be taught to compose music, technique is helpful to develop ideas, but the source of the music must come from a deeper place within the creative mind and spirit to reach authenticity. It's a kind of tuning in to something in and out of your self. Historical currents, pop culture, domineering teachers, family and our own self-consciousness are all part of the mirrors that must be gazed at and shattered simultaneously." Steven Lynch has also been an active proponent of peace through culture and a champion to the ideas of Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter, archeologist, scholar, and mystic who's Roerich Pact was passed as a NATO resolution during Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency. The Pact declares institutions and historic/cultural sites "neutral" during times of war and peace. "Private Lynchpin: The FIELD," Steven's post September 11Th response assigns himself to the role of soldier, but a soldier of peace through culture, deploying himself to the conflicts of the mind where the terrain is a roller coaster of emotions and visions battling reality, stretching to reach beyond it all, only to resolve on a broken record. The work included spoken text from Herman Melville's only book of poetry, "Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War." The work is for Flute and piano and was given it's world premiere at Carnegie Hall.