Lynn Glassock

Lynn Glassock is a native of Dallas, Texas and received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from the University of North Texas. His teachers have included Paul Guerrero, Ron Fink, Kalman Cherry, Ed Soph and Leigh Howard Stevens. Professional experience includes performances with the Dallas Symphony, Forth Worth Symphony, principal percussionist with the Fresno Philharmonic, musical shows and commercial bands. He has written articles for the Instrumentalist and music reviews for Percussive Notes.

He has received several awards for his compositions including winner of the Festival of New American Music sponsored by California State University, Sacramento in 1987 and the Percussive Arts Society first place awards in 1994, 1997 and 1998. His compositions have been performed at numerous universities in the USA and international performances including Brussels Conservatory, Belgium; Amsterdam Conservatory, Netherlands; and Rotterdam Conservatory, Netherlands. He has also had performances at the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions in New Orleans, Atlanta, Phoenix, Nashville and Anaheim.

Glassock received a Faculty Fellowship Award for the spring of 1992 to write a piece for solo marimba. The result was a four movement work entitled Altered Echoes which was subsequently performed in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York by marimbist Michael Burritt.

Glassock is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he teaches Percussion, Introduction to Music Technology, Percussion Methods and conducts the UNC Percussion Ensemble.

From Lynn Glassock

Altered Echoes

$15.00

Altered Echoes is a four-movement work playable on a 4.6 range (low “E”) marimba. The titles of the movements are quite telling: Tropes of Wood, Darkened Spaces, Readings of Change and Particles of Light. It is idiomatic, serious and challenging for the advanced player.

Altered Echoes is a four-movement work playable on a 4.6 range (low “E”) marimba. The titles of the movements are quite telling: Tropes of Wood, Darkened Spaces, Readings of Change and Particles of Light. It is idiomatic, serious and challenging for the advanced player.

Concerto for Percussion & Wind Ensemble

$30.00

First prize winner in the 2000 P.A.S. Composition Contest! Glassock’s new work is bound to become a favorite for concerto competitions and recitals. The composer’s deep familiarity with keyboard mallet percussion, as well as his considerable compositional skills, make this piece a rich and rewarding experience for both performer and audience.

First prize winner in the 2000 P.A.S. Composition Contest! Glassock’s new work is bound to become a favorite for concerto competitions and recitals. The composer’s deep familiarity with keyboard mallet percussion, as well as his considerable compositional skills, make this piece a rich and rewarding experience for both performer and audience.

Lydeka

$10.00

First prize winner of the 1987 Festival of New American Music composition contest. Lydeka is a medium-difficult three-movement solo marimba work that uses many of the new techniques such as one-handed rolls, playing on the nodes and sequential sticking patterns.

First prize winner of the 1987 Festival of New American Music composition contest. Lydeka is a medium-difficult three-movement solo marimba work that uses many of the new techniques such as one-handed rolls, playing on the nodes and sequential sticking patterns.

Street Talk

$45.00

An exciting new piece from award-winning composer Lynn Glassock! For 10 percussionists, the piece requires 2 vibraphones, 4 marimbas, a cabasa, woodblock/cowbell, tambourine, guiro, small and large gongs, temple blocks, bowed crotale, and flexatone. Special effects include drumming with fingers and using rattan on the side of a marimba.

An exciting new piece from award-winning composer Lynn Glassock! For 10 percussionists, the piece requires 2 vibraphones, 4 marimbas, a cabasa, woodblock/cowbell, tambourine, guiro, small and large gongs, temple blocks, bowed crotale, and flexatone. Special effects include drumming with fingers and using rattan on the side of a marimba.