John Lynch is a leading international wind band conductor and a dual citizen of the United States and Australia. He is currently the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a freelance conductor/composer/teacher based in Madison Wisconsin, and the new Musical Director of the Madison Brass Band. He was formerly the Director of Bands and Wind Symphony Conductor at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he created the first graduate degrees in wind conducting and the first comprehensive university band program in Australian history. He is the founder and artist director of the Verbrugghen Ensemble, the Conservatorium’s professional chamber orchestra in residence, and was previously Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Georgia and the University of Kansas. Other positions include those at Northwestern University and Emory University. He was the Music Director of Chicago’s renown Northshore Concert Band and the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony and is the founder of the Greater New York Wind Symphony and the University of Kansas/Kansas City Youth Wind Symphony.