While studying as a foreign exchange student in Mexico, Lynn McGrath bought a guitar on a whim and asked a visiting professor (Alfredo Sanchez) for lessons, never imagining that years later she would be invited back as a professional musician. Lynn has degrees in Spanish Language and Literature, Education, and in Music. In 2006, she earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Southern California where she was also an Assistant Lecturer and a multiple award recipient.

Combining her interest in Spanish Literature, story-telling, and classical guitar, Lynn’s newest project is garnering international attention. She performs Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Platero y yo as both soloist and narrator, rendering a unique interpretation of the Nobel prize-winning text by Juan Ramón Jiménez. In addition to performing in various locations across the United States, she has been invited abroad for major international festivals including The Guitar on the Mediterranean Festival (Cervo, Italy), The Nikšić Festival (Montenegro) and the XIX Festival Internacional de Guitarra in Lima, Peru. She has also performed in Mexico (University of Veracruz) and in March of 2008 she toured Peru giving concerts and masterclasses in five major cities. In the United States, she has performed for the Wichita Guitar Society, the Seattle Guitar Society, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and has been an outreach performer for the Austin Classical Guitar Society and the Loyola Marymount Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, CA.

Lynn has studied with some of today’s most prominent guitarists, including William Kanengiser of the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Pepe Romero, as well as James Smith and Douglas Rubio. She has also been coached by a number of world-acclaimed musicians including Odair Assad, Denis Azabagic, Dusan Bogdanović, Eliot Fisk, Antigoni Goni, Paul Galbraith, Ricardo Iznaola, Martha Masters, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli, Hopkinson Smith, Scott Tennant, and Andrew York.

Lynn has also distinguished herself as a teacher. In 2002 she was named a Teaching Associate for the Celebration of Pepe Romero Festival. She has been invited to give masterclasses for distinguished guitar programs in the United States and abroad colleges in addition to adjudicating several international competitions. Presently a member of the faculty at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam where she received a Student Choice Award in 2006, Lynn also serves as the Tour Director for the Guitar Foundation of America.