Dr. Lynne A. Lauderdale earned 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 included 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, and the Okaloosa Symphony 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, and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music..
Dr. Lauderdale serves as organist at First Baptist Church, Pensacola, 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 director at Brown Barge Middle School, reside in Pensacola with their two sons, Nathaniel and Charles.
"Faith is to Believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this Faith is to see what you Believe." - St. Augustine
