Lynn Ledbetter

Lynn Ledbetter, D.M.A.
PROFESSOR
School of Music
College of Fine Arts and Communication
512.245.3393
LL09@txstate.edu

Areas of Interest: Violin, Chamber Music, Violin Literature, Chamber Music Literature, String Pedagogy, Music Performance

Lynn Ledbetter joined the Texas State University School of Music Faculty in Fall 1996 as an Assistant Professor of Violin/Viola. She has served as Coordinator of the String/Guitar Area for several years, and was recently named Faculty Senator for the School of Fine Arts and Communications. Prior to TSU, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Violin/Viola at Eastern New Mexico University. In addition, she has served on music faculties at the College of St. Scholastica and the University of Southern Mississippi, and performed as Concertmaster/First Violin in the Rochester Symphony Orchestra/Rochester String Quartet/String Trio for four years. She has performed in a Concertmaster/Principal capacity in such orchestras as "Musica Bella" (NY); "Caritas Chorale and Symphony" in (ID); "Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra" (WI); "Grand Teton Festival" (WY);"Bedford Springs Symphony" (PA); "Lubbock Symphony/Sinfonietta" (TX); and "Brazos Valley Symphony" (TX). She has toured China, Mexico, Canada, Turkey, and the U.K. as a soloist, an orchestral musician, and as a chamber musician. She has also been affiliated with InterHarmony International Music Festival in Italy and Germany and the International Chamber Orchestra of NY.

Dr. Ledbetter has served as President of the Texas Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, member of national committees on Studio Instruction (ASTA), and has given a number of presentations for Texas Music Educators Association, American String Teachers Association, and Texas Orchestra Directors Association. Her former students are serving as string music educators in both public school and private studio settings, as members of professional and semi-professional symphony orchestras, and as graduate students in prestigious music schools in the U.S.

Dr. Ledbetter continues to be highly sought after as a national and regional clinician and adjudicator and as a touring artist in chamber groups such as "The Lyrian Duo", "Duo Paradox", and "The Madera Trio". She continues to perform with orchestras in Texas, Idaho, New York, and Virginia, and has recently been invited to be a chamber soloist and clinician in Bulgaria in the Summer of 2015.