Lynn is a graduate of Leeds University, where she was awarded the Frank Toothill Memorial Prize for Music. She has worked extensively in education, teaching in schools in Leeds and Calderdale, serving as Chair of Examiners for Music at Advanced Level for a major examining board and running the secondary music PGCE course at the University of Leeds.

 

Throughout her career she has always been involved in choral work, forming the City of Leeds Youth Choir, taking Opus 44, a female voice chamber choir, to considerable success in national competitions, directing Halifax Young Singers for 27 years, and leading Calderdale Singing Initiative (CSI:Halifax), a choir formed to encourage adults back into singing. She has run choral courses for both singers and conductors, and adjudicated at music festivals in Yorkshire and the wider area. 

 

With her husband, Thom Meredith, she is a Director of Harrogate Festival Choral Course. Their son and daughter-in-law, Harry and Ellie, are also professional musicians.

 

In her own words …

 

At the age of 8, I was selected to conduct my junior school percussion band. Whether I was chosen because a teacher saw a spark of talent in me or just a girl that liked to be in control, I don’t know but, either way, I was hooked. I’ve always loved singing and believe that everyone should be given that opportunity without fear of an audition process and without feeling that they have to be able to read music: that just comes with practice. The joy that singing together engenders is infectious and if we have fun and rise to new challenges along the way so much the better.

 

I worked with Craig for 20 years at Halifax Young Singers.  Ned sang with us from the age of 9 until he went to university. On his return he and his dad sang with CSI:Halifax and subsequently Ned became our accompanist and, latterly, my deputy. I’ll leave them to tell their own stories but I know we make a good team and that we’re excited about what lies ahead for CCC (Halifax).