Born in Australia, Lynette studied musicology, music education and classical voice at Monash and Melbourne Universities. Scholarship/prize successes included winning the national Liederfest Scholarship, enabling her to move to the UK in the early 90s to further her vocal studies: she has worked as a professional singer ever since. Lynette has sung with the Dunedin Consort, English National Opera, Opera North and The Monteverdi Choir. With the latter, she recorded numerous CDs including singing solo on Gramophone Award winning disc The Music of Percy Grainger. For almost 25 years she was a staff alto with The BBC Singers, the UK’s only full-time professional chamber choir, giving around 50 concerts/broadcasts per year in the UK and abroad. She has sung for leading conductors including Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Andrew Davis. She now freelances when her Cambridge teaching commitments allow. Recent performances include alto soloist in the Verdi Requiem in Southwark Cathedral (Nov 22).
In Cambridge, Lynette enjoys a portfolio career of conducting and teaching. As part-time Director of Music at Wolfson (since 1998) she conducts the College Choir and Chamber Singers, overseeing all things musical, including the many concerts the college hosts each term. She is particularly proud to have introduced Choral and Accompanist Scholarships at college. Lynette's work at the Faculty of Music over the last dozen years or so has included leading the Vocal Pathway of the MMus in Choral Studies, teaching voice to Masters' students and lecturing on Vocal Health to conducting students.
For ten years she was vocal coach for CUMS Chorus (now CUSC) and has also been chorus-master for the Cambridge Philharmonic Chorus (Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (2017), Poulenc Stabat Mater & Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (2018), and in 2019, Verdi Requiem). Recent guest visits have included Saffron Walden Choral Society.
Singing students include Choral Scholars at Wolfson, Sidney Sussex and Queens’ Colleges. Lyn taught singing to the boy trebles of the world-famous King’s College Choir from 2008 until 2020 preparing them for solos on CD, TV and radio. One of her private pupils won the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Young Girl Chorister of the Year. In 2010 she founded and still runs children's music charity, KJV Community Children's Choir. In August 2022 she was appointed as Director of the Song School at Our Lady of the English Martyrs (OLEM).
Lynette is a member of the British Voice Association, Association of Teachers of Singing, EQUITY, Association of British Choral Directors and is a Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.