Lynn
Raley joined the Millsaps Performing Arts faculty in 2002.
At Millsaps he teaches Music
History & Literature, Piano,
and courses in Interdisciplinary
Studies.
He has degrees
from Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University,
the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music and Rutgers University's Mason
Gross School of the Arts , where he earned the Doctor
of Musical Arts degree. His teachers have included Theodore
Lettvin, Paul
Hoffmann , David
Bar-Illan and William Trantham, and he has coached privately
with Menahem
Pressler in Bloomington, Indiana and with James Dick two
summers at the Round
Top International Festival-Institute in Texas.
As a teacher,
he has maintained private studios in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Princeton,
N.J. and taught at Rutgers University, The Lawrenceville
School (NJ), and in summer programs at Sarah Lawrence College
in Bronxville, NY and Temple College in Texas. He has
adjudicated state piano competitions for the New York, New
Jersey, and Virginia Music Teachers National Association chapters.
Other adjudication includes competitions for the Appalachian
Music Teachers' (TN) and the Monroe (LA) Symphony League concerto
competition.
Known
for his commitment to the music of our time, Mr. Raley
has presented solo recitals of new music in Dallas, Houston,
Cincinnati, and New York, and has performed extensively in other
cities in the United States, the Netherlands, and Canada, where
he appeared at the Jeunesses Musicales International “Music
of the Americas” Festival in 1985. He recently premiered Charles
Wuorinen's The Haroun Piano Book, written for him
in 2003. In 1992 he gave a series of public concerts in Taiwan
at the invitation of the League of Composers/ISCM, and at the
National Institute of the Arts, Soochow University and the College
of Chinese Culture in Taipei. In the U.S. he has given lecture-recitals
on contemporary piano music at Anderson University, Rice University,
Westminster Choir College, and The Juilliard School. He
has appeared with the Houston Chamber Symphony, the Rutgers Summerfest
Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Philharmonia. In 1999 he performed
music for piano and computer-generated sounds at the Santa Fe
International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music and the Florida
International Electroacoustic Music Festival. Raley can be heard
in contemporary solo and ensemble works on the Leonarda and Capstone compact
disc labels.
Jonathan
Kramer
James Dashow
REVIEWS
THE NEW JERSEY STAR LEDGER:
The
tone was established from the beginning, in pianist Lynn Raley's
extraordinarily lucid and clean-limbed reading of the three
Op. 11 pieces. Nothing could have better expressed the young
Schoenberg's rejection of High-Romantic bombast and rhetoric
than Raley's unblurred pianism.
THE CINCINNATI POST:
Raley
played them all with conviction, affection, and a daunting
technique.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Toronto):
...memorable
interpretation...
"He
plays Webern and Boulez with the same intensity, accuracy,
respect, and musicality he brings to Beethoven and Schumann."
- Jonathan D. Kramer, composer, theorist and author
E-mail
Dr. Raley at raleyhl@millsaps.edu
