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Lynn Beck
Phone: (336)770-3255
Email: beckl@ncarts.edu


LYNN BECK, Theory

Lynn Huntzinger Beck holds performance and education degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, and studied horn with Verne Reynolds, James Decker and Vincent DeRosa. Prior to NCSA, she was horn professor for 12 years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she also served as theory coordinator. As hornist with the Sierra Wind Quintet, Ms. Beck recorded two internationally acclaimed compact discs on the Cambria label. She has performed with the Spoleto Festival and National Repertory orchestras, and has appeared as soloist at the International Horn Society Workshop. Also active as a commercial musician in Las Vegas, Ms. Beck traveled internationally with the Frank Sinatra Orchestra. Formerly principal horn with the Nevada Symphony, she is now a member of the Greensboro Symphony and performs frequently with other area orchestras, including the Knoxville, North Carolina, Charlotte, and Winston-Salem symphonies. She has served as education director for the Greensboro Symphony and is a member of the music theory faculty at both NCSA and Salem College.