/24-7PressRelease/ - FALLS CHURCH, VA, August 28, 2008 - Lynn Gaubatz, international soloist and founder of AdoptALibrary.org, will appear in the September issue of "Glamour" magazine - just 20 short years after they named her "One of America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" in 1988.
Lynn laughs, "Yes, every 20 years "Glamour" puts my picture in their magazine. I'm guessing it's for the periodic circulation boost, and I'm happy to help them out. Apparently every couple of decades like clockwork "Glamour" will run something about me. I'm looking forward to 2028!"
Lynn will be featured as winner of this year's "Glamour"/Sally Hansen "Best of You" Contest, which honors four women chosen for their inspirational qualities and the scope and quality of their accomplishments.
"The best part? The $1,000 donation to my chosen charity: the friars of the Discalced Carmelites of Austria, a wonderful group who help people around the world."
Lynn has performed several concerts at the Carmelite monastery in Linz, Austria, with the proceeds benefiting families in India. These performances have included the world premičres of two works composed for her by Fritz Berens, a Viennese composer who fled the Nazis in 1939, and in 2004 a solo work by Danish composer Ivar Danielsen.
Her 2004 "Concert for India" in Austria was just weeks before the Asian tsunami, so the monastery which hosted the concert committed to rebuilding four tsunami-ravaged villages. With the concert money and donations from generous Austrians, within months ALL FOUR VILLAGES WERE COMPLETELY REBUILT.
Lynn is currently working with the Carmelite friars to raise funds for the renovation of their historic Baroque church (consecrated in 1726) in time for the celebration of Linz, Austria as the "2009 Cultural Capital City of the European Union."
Earlier this year Lynn's work for libraries was recognized by the U.S. Senate and by proclamation of the governors of Virginia, Nebraska, and North Dakota and the South Dakota state legislature on April 23rd, 2008 when it was officially designated "Adopt A Library Day".
The governors of Nebraska and North Dakota and the South Dakota state legislature honored Lynn, a Virginian, because of the thousands of books libraries on reservations and tribal colleges have received through her work on AdoptALibrary.org.
AdoptALibrary.org, created by Lynn in 2002, is an Internet clearinghouse that facilitates and encourages the donations of books and materials to libraries, prisons, Native American reservations, and schools around the world.
Says Lynn, "Last week I got an email from the tribal library in Fort Totten, North Dakota, which serves the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. Antoinette Halsey, the librarian, said that through AdoptALibrary.org they've received many private book donations, and that day were notified that the library is has been included in the will of a donor and will receive her entire book collection! I'm really happy that AdoptALibrary.org is helping so many tribal colleges."
The Valerie Merrick Memorial Library at Cankdeska Cikana Community College in Fort Totten, North Dakota, is the only public, tribal library in the area, and therefore serves the entire community, including the 6,000 enrolled tribal members of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation.
AdoptALibrary.org is so popular it has had over 300,000 visitors and been "Website of the Week" in "Woman's World" and Good Housekeeping's "Quick & Simple!" magazines. Hundreds of newspapers across the US, from an editorial in Bigfork, Montana to "Hints from Heloise", have praised AdoptALibrary.org and it's listed on websites and newsletters about recycling and ecology worldwide because of all the books it keeps out of landfills.
Besides Lynn's two August 2007 appearances on Oprah & Friends! Radio, AdoptALibrary.org was featured in the April 2007 "Special Green Issue" of Town & Country in a special section called "Going, going, GREEN." In November 2007 Woman's Day magazine declared her one of four winners of their "7th Annual Woman's Day Awards: Women Who Inspire Us."
Lynn Gaubatz, internationally recognized as one of the world's finest soloists, uses her time and travels to advocate for causes close to her heart - literacy, ecology, and human rights.
As a soloist, Lynn has wowed audiences on four continents - North and South America, Europe, and Africa - including virtuoso solo performances in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Chicago, Washington, Boston, Seville, Málaga, Trondheim, and Caracas. Her critically-acclaimed performances of Mozart's Bassoon Concerto have been broadcast on three
continents by PBS, Radio Nacional de Espańa, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and she was the only solo bassoonist ever broadcast worldwide by the Voice of America.
Featured on CBS as "One of America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" chosen by "Glamour" Magazine, Gaubatz was the Bassoon Professor at the world-renowned Mozarteum Conservatory in Salzburg, Austria and has performed at festivals around the world including Tanglewood, Aspen, and Wolf Trap, where she played the bassoon on stage in costume in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. She is the only bassoon soloist ever featured at the Smithsonian Institution's Art of the Virtuosi and The Concert Experience. She was chosen by America Online's StarFinder to be the only bassoonist ever interviewed as an up-and-coming soloist, and was profiled in Current Biography.
Gaubatz has given benefit concerts in the US and Europe for the renovation of a church and monastery in Vienna, "Musicians Against World Hunger", scholarship funds for a conservatory in Washington, DC, and a group which aids in the nuclear disarmament of the former Soviet Union. She also created websites in English and Spanish for an organization which cares for the poor, the aged, and the mentally impaired.
Gaubatz has been principal bassoonist under Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Georg Solti, and others with orchestras in Austria, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, and the US. She has been awarded the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to Tanglewood and the Henry Cabot Award for Musicianship given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has won the National Young Artists Competition, the Lara Hoggard Performance Award for Young Artists, and competitions at the Aspen Music Festival, Boston University, and Northwestern University. She has given master classes in Salzburg, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Vienna, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Madison, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe.
One of Gaubatz's musical passions is her search for survivors and descendants of the victims of the Holocaust who were composers, to bring to light the forgotten music of these artists. Through her research, she is finding and performing music that was banned by the Nazi regime, much of it never before published or heard. On the 56th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau, she performed an Entartete Musik concert, including two works by Czech composer Karel Reiner who survived Terezín, Auschwitz, and was at Dachau at its liberation, for a worldwide broadcast audience from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. In 2000 Gaubatz performed the world premičre of a solo piece by Eric Zeisl, in conjunction with an article she wrote about the composer in Austria Kultur. Later that year she performed as soloist the world broadcast premičre of Eric Zeisl's The Good Old Time on a worldwide Internet webcast from the Kennedy Center which was covered by newspaper reviews/articles in Washington, Vienna, London, Berlin, and Bregenz, Austria.
Gaubatz was the only musician invited to perform at the International Holocaust Conference in Vienna, Austria in 1999, where she performed a solo work by exiled Viennese composer Egon Wellesz, and she performed as soloist at the award ceremony for the international Students' Peace Prize in Norway, which was broadcast by NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation).
Gaubatz has taught at conservatories on three continents in Austria, Venezuela and the US in German, Spanish and English to students from Austria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, England, Germany, India, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Venezuela and the US.
For more information on AdoptALibrary.org, please go to AdoptALibrary.org
For more information on Lynn's musical career, please go to LynnGaubatz.com
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