Thrush Hill Music

music lessons in Juneau, Alaska

Voice, Beginning Piano, Cello, and Guitar

Kellie Patricia Lynch studied composition and performance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She holds an Interdisciplinary Bachelors in Applied Ethnomusicology from University of Alaska Fairbanks. She builds and creates instruments for community use, her largest project was creating a Javanese Gamelan. She is a multi instrumentalist with extended studies in performance art and new music techniques. She has studied voice with Lois White and Tomasa Eckert in Seattle, Cello will Kevin Hekmatpanah (Gonzaza Faculty) and Ryan Fitzpatrick (UAF faculty). While a student at UAF she took piano lessons from Eduard Zilberkant. Her performances include vocal works Sequenza III and the folk songs of Luciano Berio, prepared piano pieces by John Cage and personal compositions incorporating voice, piano and cello. She and her children are a members of the Yees Ku Oo dancers here in Juneau.
She believes in tailoring music studies to practical musicianship and helping students achieve their goals through playing music they actually want to play.