Composer and Pianist
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2002 NW Regional Emmy
"...heartbreakingly beautiful. The mark of a good soundtrack is that it complements the images well and does not overtake the story. Your music does that."--Rustin Thompson, White Noise Productions
Biography
Lynette
Westendorf, M.M., D.M.A.
Composer and Pianist
P.O. Box 1066
Winthrop, WA 98862
509/996-3418
email: lynette@lwmusic.com
Dr. Lynette Westendorf has been composing and performing her original works in creative jazz and new music for many years. She has received numerous awards and commissions, and has composed for the recital stage, modern dance, theater and documentary film. She has three CD recordings to her credit, including River of Memory: the Everlasting Columbia, Surrounded by Green, a CD of original works for jazz septet, which features the atypical instrumentation of koto and tabla; and False Promises: The Lost Land of the Wenatchi, an Emmy-award winning soundtrack for the documentary film of the same name.
Her most recent project is a museum exhibit soundtrack for The River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia. This exhibit will open at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center in Wenatchee, Washington, in April, 2006, and will tour the Northwest and British Columbia through 2008. The exhibit features historic photography of the Columbia River, poetry, music, artwork, and maps. Lectures and other events are scheduled throughout the summer of 2006. A companion book by author, historian and exhibit curator William D. Layman is published from the University of Washington Press and the University of British Columbia Press.
Lynette's work as a composer and a pianist has been featured on other
musicians' projects, such as Richard Nunemaker's Between Silence and
Darkness, Elizabeth Falconer's Watercolors, and various projects
by Jim Knodle.
Lynette’s current project is a recording of all original works for solo piano, her first solo piano recording. Included will be a new suite of modern "songs without words" based upon the poetry of E. Richard Hart entitled Twenty Moons in the Big Canyon, as well as several piano pieces composed over the past ten years.
An active performing pianist, Lynette performs with her own jazz and chamber ensembles, is a regular accompanist, and often acts as guest performer with various regional ensembles.
Lynette holds her doctorate in composition from the University of Washington (1994). Her research dissertation is entitled Analyzing Free Jazz, and includes analyses of works by Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor. The composed works of her dissertation are entitled Bleysphemous and Hadenistic for jazz octet; and Sestina Kyrie for mezzo soprano, percussion ensemble and speaking chorus. For more information, please contact:
Email: lynette@lwmusic.com
URL: http//www.lwmusic.com
