Professor Lynn Clark Meyers has donated her collection of Hispanic solo vocal music to the Foundation for Iberian Music.

View the Lynn Meyers Song Catalog.
Read a brief bio of Lynn Meyers, highlighting her lifelong dedication to song.

Lynn Clarke Meyers earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Voice from Juilliard in 1956 where she studied piano with Katherine Bacon and voice with Marion Freschl during the 5-year program. In 1973 a Master of Arts degree in Music History and Literature was received from SUNY Potsdam. She studied voice privately in NYC with Anna Hamlin for 14 years. Coaches include Aldo DiTullio, Pierre Bernac and Martin Katz. She recorded for Silver Burdett’s Music For Living series and for Music Guild Records Artist Series with the Riverside Chamber Singers, sang a leading role in the NY premiere of Ned Rorem’s opera, A Childhood Miracle, has sung Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo, Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème, as well as other opera and operetta roles.

Professor Meyers began her teaching career at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. in 1964 and was a member of the Voice Faculty at the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam in Potsdam, NY from 1968 to 1998. Professor Meyers has presented annual faculty vocal recitals, sung as part of a Crane contemporary music ensemble, performed as soloist in such works as the NewYork State premiere of Krystof Penderecki’s Auschwitz Oratorio as well as Haydn’s Creation, the Brahms Requiem , and other standard works. Although Studio Voice has always been her primary teaching responsibility, she has taught Opera and Vocal Literature classes, Vocal Techniques for Music Education non-vocal majors, Vocal Pedagogy, Aural Skills, French Diction, and Class Voice for non-music majors. She has accompanied numerous voice faculty recitals, has coached vocalists and accompanists in a Chamber Ensemble course and has assisted in preparation of music theater scenes programs and for opera productions .

The subject of Professor Meyers’ Masters Thesis in 1973 was “The Influence of the Spanish Dance Tradition on Spanish Solo Song as Exemplified in Selected Works by Spanish Composers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.”

While on sabbatical in 1978, she collaborated in preparing and performing Dances & Songs of Spain, a program combining classic Spanish song with dance which was presented in New York City at the Repertorio Espagnol and at the Spanish Institute, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a part of the Inner City Cultural Arts Festival and in Hyannis, Mass. as part of the Summer Festival of Ethnic Dance.

In 1991, Professor Meyers was granted a sabbatical and a year of leave to develop an annotated bibliography of solo vocal music with Hispanic text. She received three SUNY grants for this work. The first section of the computerized bibliography describes the Crane Music Library holdings.