Dr. Andrew Lynge is currently the Director of Percussion Studies at The University of Alabama, a position that he began in 2019. He is the Director of the UA Percussion Ensemble, who was named a winner in the 2020 PAS International Percussion Ensemble Competition and performed a Showcase Concert at the 2021 Percussive Arts Society International Convention. He is also the Principal Percussionist for the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.

As an international percussionist Dr. Lynge has performed and presented in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Italy, South Korea, and Thailand, as a concerto soloist with the Dallas Winds at the 2021 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, and at five Percussive Arts Society International Conventions (PASIC). He was a featured artist at the 16th, 18th, and 20th Patagonia International Percussion Festivals in General Roca, Argentina, the 2019 and 2021 World Percussion Movement in Bari, Italy, the 2019 Percussion Seminaar at Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil, the 2022 JeJu International Brass and Percussion Festival in South Korea, and the 2nd International Thailand International Percussion Festival. A recent clinic tour through Italy included presentations and master classes at Conservatorio Superiore di Musica, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Conservatorio di Matera, Conservatorio di Cesena, and Liceo Musicale Ancona.

Dr. Lynge is a founding member of Epoch Percussion, a percussion quartet who has gained a national reputation as concerti soloists with the top wind bands throughout the United States with over a dozen performances in the United States. Epoch Percussion have been featured soloists with the Dallas Winds (2017/2019/2021/2023), the World Youth Wind Symphony at the Interlochen Arts Camp (2017), The University of Texas Wind Ensemble (2017/2019/2023), and The University of Alabama Wind Ensemble (2020/2023), to name a few, with performances of the percussion concerti Invisible Cities by Dinuk Wijeratne, Re(new)al by Viet Cuong, and Orbital by John Psathas. They premiered the wind ensemble arrangement of Orbital by John Psathas, which features percussion quartet, amplified wind ensemble, and pre-recorded audio with the Dallas Winds and The University of Texas Wind Ensemble in 2023. Tim Divanni, from The Dallas Morning News states, “The Epoch Percussion Quartet, made up of Cory Fica, Nigel Fernandez, Oni Lara and Andrew Lynge, combined rhythmic precision with nonstop energy.”

In 2016 Dr. Lynge was a featured soloist with the I.P.E.C. winner Lone Star High School with a performance of Keiko Abe’s Reflections on Japanese Children’s Songs III.

As an educator, Dr. Lynge’s students have received top placements at numerous national and international competitions including those hosted by the Percussive Arts Society and the Oklahoma Modern Music Collective (Great Plains International Marimba Competition). Having a strong history in marching percussion, Dr. Lynge was a member of the teaching staff for the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps (2016- 2019) and the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps (2012-2014). As a performer, he was a member of the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps from 2008 (DCI Champions-Fred E. Sanford High Percussion Award)-2009.

Andrew is an artist and clinician for Innovative Percussion, Pearl/Adams, Zildjian, REMO, and Black Swamp Percussion.