John David Lamp
John David Lamb was born in Portland, Oregon in 1935. He was raised in
Yakima, Washington, where he received a public school education. He received a
B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1956, and an M.A. from the
University of Washington in 1958, majoring in composition and conducting. He
studied composition with Latvian nationalist composer, Volfgangs Darzins,
Seattle, 1956-1960. David taught in the Seattle Public Schools from 1960 until
his retirement in 1996. His compositions for orchestra and chamber works
include a Wunderhorn song sung by Patrick Mason on the chamber concerts
of MahlerFest XIV. David and his wife, Mary, were married 1954, and they have
two daughters, one of whom is the well-known Nashville musician Barbara Lamb.
David and Mary have attended MahlerFest for the past ten years.
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