John Lindner

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John Lindner

Adjunct Professor, Music Education

MED, The College of New Jersey
BA, The College of New Jersey

Contact Info

Music Education

Terra Hall 1005

John B. Lindner is an Adjunct Professor at UArts and has been teaching there since fall 2011. His emphasis has been in the area of the supervision and observation of Music Education student teachers.

Biography
John Lindner earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education degrees from Trenton State College in New Jersey. For 34 years, he served as director of bands at Northern Burlington County Regional High School in Columbus, New Jersey. While tenured there, Linder also served as chairman of the Visual and Performing Arts Department. He also directed the brass, jazz and wind ensembles, as well as the jazz, marching and symphonic bands and the musical show orchestra. 

Experience

  • Since 2008, Lindner has held a number of adjunct positions at local universities.
  • He was an adjunct instructor at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, from 2008 to 2011, serving as the coordinator of student teacher and practicum placements and the instructor for instrumental Praxis - winds and percussion classes. 
  • From 2012 to 2013, Linder was an adjunct professor at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, where he served as coordinator of student teaching.  
  • Since 2011, he has been an adjunct professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he teaches beginning jazz improvisation classes and conducts student teacher observations.

Awards & Accolades
Lindner has been honored numerous times throughout his career. 

  • He was selected by the New Jersey Chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education as the New Jersey Jazz Educator of the Year in 2003.  
  • He was also honored as the 2007 New Jersey Master Music Educator of the Year by the New Jersey Music Educators Association and received the New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education. 
  • Under his direction, a marching band placed first three times at the USSBA (now USBands) Marching Band finals. 
  • In 2007, the jazz ensemble he directed placed first in the NJ-AJE (New Jersey Association for Jazz Education) State Jazz Band Division Three finals.
  • The wind ensemble directed by Lindner was selected seven times to perform at the NBA/NJMEA New Jersey State Gala Band Concert.  
  • He served as guest conductor of the 2004 All South Jersey Senior High School Symphonic Band, the 2009 Central Jersey Music Educators Association Intermediate Honors Band and the 2010 Central Jersey Music Educators Association High School Symphonic Band.