Rob Lynch
An award winning teacher, Rob has taught both Fine Art and Music at Niagara Falls High School, Buffalo Arts Studio, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Artpark, The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Alder Creek Music, Lewiston Porter High School, and various Buffalo Public Schools as a teaching artist with the Arts In Education Institute of WNY. His combined years of teaching nearly equal his years on the planet. Always looking to wear more hats, Rob has worked as a contributing reviewer for the Buffalo News and a hat model for Buffalo Spree Magazine. He kids you not.
Rob’s Multidisciplinary background has found a home in various places: He has produced four solo recordings of “bittersweet art pop”, one of which was proclaimed by Buffalo News music critic Jeff Miers as, “One of the best releases of the year, period. Stunning.” His discography as an award winning session musician is long and varied. Highlights include work with national artists Peter Case, Ani Difranco, Rex Hobart, Michael Tarbox and 10,000 Maniacs founders John and Mary. Some of the more interesting musical paths taken include a weekly bluegrass gig with guitarist Doug Yeomans, a soul jazz matinee with organist Ronnie Davis and a yearly recording project of non-traditional Christmas songs known as Robot Holiday. In the early 90’s Rob’s band placed first in the Late Night with Conan O’Brien College Music Search, narrowly missing the grand prize of appearing on the show but gaining a fantastic NBC sweatshirt (now lost). Working heavily in a variety of styles lead to his induction in the Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame in 2011 as one of the organization’s youngest members.
Rob has worked as a commercial artist for Media Play Inc, Buffalo Spree, The Hard Rock Café, and The Aquarium of Niagara Falls. Public art exhibitions include Herd about Buffalo, Papergirl (Berlin, Germany), The Hard Rock Café New Years Eve Guitar Drop, and the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. Rob’s paintings are held in numerous private and public collections nationwide and exhibited in Western New York and beyond through solo and group shows. For more information, visit www.welcometosound.com .