Lynn Purse
Associate Professor of Music TechnologyMary Pappert School of Music
Ensembles
102 School of Music
Phone: 412.396.4733
purse@duq.edu
www.lynnpurse.com
Education:
M.M., Composition, Duquesne University, 1989B.A., World Religions, Catham University, 1974
Lynn Purse is an Associate Professor of Music Technology at Duquesne University's Mary Pappert School of Music, where she teaches a variety of music technology courses and electronic composition. Ms. Purse is an active composer, performer and recording artist, and specializes in electronic keyboards, wind controller, and voice. Performing as a keyboardist with Mother Mallard, one of the world's first synthesizer ensembles, she has appeared in concerts in New York at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, London's Barbican Center and the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, and recorded on the Mother Mallard CD The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Parts 1-4 + 8.
Ms. Purse is also a composer and arranger for the Carden Keyboard Ensemble Series and for Ogilvy Music Publishing where she specializes in writing for electronic keyboard ensembles; her keyboard ensemble compositions are performed regularly in concert programs throughout the country. A member of the advisory board and member of the TI:ME Web Committee, she is actively involved in developing curriculum for technology in music and regularly gives presentations on music technology throughout the country.
