Lynne Lauderdale

Associate Professor of Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Organ, and Music History

Since joining the music faculty at UWF in 1980, Dr. Lauderdale has taught a wide range
of courses, including Music in Western Civilization, Freshman and Sophomore Theory
and Ear Training, Music History, Structure and Style, Counterpoint, UWF Singers, UWF
Madrigals, and UWF Show Choir, Graduate Seminars, Applied and Class Piano, and
Organ. She served as Coordinator for the Department of Music from 1993 through
1999. Dr. Lauderdale is responsible for inaugurating the UWF Arts Camps, the UWF
Gospel Choir, the UWF Madrigals, and the UWF Show Choir. She currently serves as
Associate Professor, with teaching responsibilities in Music History, Class Piano, Piano
Pedagogy, Applied Piano, and Organ.
Dr. Lauderdale received the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance
from Louisiana State University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano
Performance, with Organ and Musicology as related fields from the University of North
Texas. Her piano teachers have included Lelande Lacoste, Guy Bernard, Janet Martin,
Daniel Sher, Jack Guerry, Martin Canin, and Joseph Banowetz; organ teachers include
Richard Heschke and Charles Brown. She has performed as soloist with the New Orleans
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the New Orleans Summer Pops Orchestra, the
Louisiana State University Symphony Orchestra, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, the
Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Okaloosa Symphony Orchestra, and the
UWF Runge Strings Orchestra. Dr. Lauderdale was a semi-finalist in the Murray
Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition and the Gina Bachauer International Piano
Competition. She maintains an active private studio both in piano and organ, with many
of her students receiving top honors in local, state, regional, and national competitions.
Several of her students have been accepted at such prestigious musical institutions as
Brevard, Interlochen, Aspen, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard
School.
Dr. Lauderdale has served as organist at First Baptist Church, Pensacola, since 1981,
where she produced a recording of music for organ to benefit Sacred Heart Children’s
Hospital. She also started the Cherub Choir and the Acappella Singers as additions to the
Music Ministry of FBC. She and her husband, Mark York, oboist and band / music
teacher at Brown Barge Middle School, reside in Pensacola with their two sons,
Nathaniel and Charles.