Lynn Bechtold

Violinist Lynn Bechtold has appeared in recital throughout the U.S., Canada, Holland, and Switzerland. An advocate of contemporary music, she has worked with composers such as Gloria Coates, George Crumb, John Harbison, and Morton Subotnick, and has premiered works on the Princeton Composers' Series and Composers Concordance. In 2001, she gave the premiere of "Violynn," a work for violin and electronics written for her by Alvin Lucier. As a member of groups that include the Lumina String Quartet, the East Village Opera Company (rock/opera band), the SEM Ensemble, and the New York Symphonic Ensemble, Ms. Bechtold has performed around the world, and has been heard on CBC Radio, CBS-TV, NHK-TV, and WNYC. Other programs have been with the Absolute Ensemble, Parsons Dance, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Vermont Symphony, the Vision Into Art Ensemble, and the VOX Opera Readings, among others. In addition, she’s performed with singers such as Sheryl Crow, Roberta Flack, Smokey Robinson, and Donna Summer. An active performer, she has performed at diverse venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the Blue Note, the Frick Museum, the Harvard Club, Joe's Pub, the Kosciuszko Foundation, Merkin Hall, St John the Divine, and Zankel Hall. Ms. Bechtold received her Master's Degree from the Mannes College of Music, where she was a student of Felix Galimir. Prior to that, she received a double-degree in Violin and English from the New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University in Boston. She is on the faculty of Greenwich House Music School in NYC, and is a contributing writer to West View, a monthly West Village newspaper.