Pamela Lynde

Pamela Stein Lynde has been teaching music and voice for close to 20 years. Currently, she is conductor of The Pennswood Chorale in Newtown, PA, and specializes in teaching private voice students seeking admissions to competitive college and conservatory music programs. Her past work in higher education includes having taught voice, music history, music theory, and vocal pedagogy at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, NJ. There, she also directed the student choir, the Elizabeth Singers, and oversaw the graduate school admissions process for all music majors. She served on the faculty of the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts Extension Division and Young Artist Program, where she taught voice, music theory, chamber music, and directed a composer-geared new music ensemble. She also gave master classes to the Extension Division’s famed musical theater program. She was an adjunct lecturer at City College of New York, CUNY, where she taught music theory, musicianship, and composition. In a partnership with award-winning composers Lisa Bielawa and Aaron Jay Kernis, Pamela formed Your Music Bus, an organization providing services to university, college, and conservatory composition students and departments to help develop the careers of young composers. Your Music Bus offered master classes, recording sessions, composition readings, concerts, and much more, to students across the country, and gave composition readings at Drew University and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

As a singer, Pamela has performed with Beth Morrison Projects, American Opera Projects, Vocala Ensemble, The Princeton Singers, Rhymes With Opera, Helix!, Saratoga Fine Arts Festival, Yamaha Concert Artists series, New Music New Haven, Gotham Arts, and Unruly Sounds. She has built a career working with contemporary composers of all levels, from students to internationally recognized artists. She appears as a vocalist on minimalist composer Alexander Turnquist’s album Flying Fantasy, released on Western Vinyl. She is a member of experimental Princeton-based country-techno band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, which performs frequently throughout Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey. Pamela is an alumna of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at Mass MoCA OperaWorks, SICPP, and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. She received her Masters degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where, upon graduation, she was awarded the Phyllis Bryn-Julson Prize for Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music.

Pamela’s projects have been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She was also awarded a Peabody Career Development Grant. As an educator with 20 years of experience, Pamela has taught, lectured, and given master classes at universities and conservatories across the country. Her students have achieved success both locally and internationally. She is a published author on topics related to vocal pedagogy, college and conservatory auditions and admissions, and career guidance for classical singers.

Pamela maintains a private voice studio in Newtown, Pennsylvania, specializing in teaching goal-oriented and career-minded students. She has successfully guided many students through the process of auditioning for top American music conservatories and competitive university music programs, often receiving substantial scholarship offers. 

 My teaching is goal oriented but always supportive and encouraging. Students can expect lessons to consist of vocal technique building and repertoire study. Lessons are very individually geared towards each student's unique needs and goals. Students who follow my instruction always see and hear results.