Lynn Brinckmeyer

Dr. Lynn M. Brinckmeyer is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music Education at Texas State University. She is the Immediate Past President for MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Past offices include: President for the Northwest Division of MENC, Music Educators Journal Editorial Board, Washington Music Educators Association General Music Curriculum Chair and Conn-Selmer University Advisory Board. In addition to chairing the Eastern Washington University Music Department for six years, she received both the PTI Excellence in Teaching Award and the CenturyTel Award for outstanding faculty. Dr. Brinckmeyer is a contributing author in The Music Director’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for a Successful Program and The Choral Director’s Cookbook: Insights and Inspired Recipes for Beginners and Experts. She founded the Eastern Washington University Girls’ Chorus while teaching at EWU. She also served as Artistic Director for the Idaho State Children’s Chorus in Pocatello, Idaho and the South Hill Children’s Chorus in Spokane, Washington. Dr. Brinckmeyer is a co-founder of the Hill Country Youth Chorus in San Marcos, Texas and serves as the Artistic Director.

Dr. Brinckmeyer’s degrees include a Bachelor of Science in Education and Master of Music Education from Eastern New Mexico University, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of Kansas. In New Mexico she taught elementary music and middle school choir, then moved to higher education in the Pacific Northwest. At Texas State University Dr. Brinckmeyer teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in choral music education and directs the Texas State Women’s Chorus. Dr. Brinckmeyer has conducted All-State choirs in the Northwest and Midwest. She has also conducted, lectured, presented master classes and performed in more than forty states in the US, in Korea, Taiwan, Amsterdam, Italy and the British Isles.

Other ensembles and conducting venues include: 9/11 Remembrance Concert in New York City, Eastern Washington University Concert Choir, South Carolina Junior High Choral Festival, Washoe County Honor Choir (Reno), Spokane Festival of the Arts, Idaho Washington Concert Chorale, Boise All City Honor Choir and Orchestra, and the Mountain Treble Choir Festival in Montana.