Career
He is the first classical brass soloist to be awarded the Order of Canada, the country"s highest civilian honour. He played in the Canadian Brass from 1996 to 2001 and continues to play at major concert venues all over the world as an orchestral soloist, with chamber groups, jazz bands, and also as a recitalist and masterclinician. Lindemann is a professor with high distinction at University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles and was a Distinguished Visiting Artist at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
He has also taught at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta.
Named "Personality of the Year 2006" by the British magazine The Brass Herald, Lindemann also hosted the 33rd International Trumpet Guild conference at the Banff Centre in June 2008. He has given numerous world premières with orchestras including the North American première of Bernd Alois Zimmermann"s concerto Nobody Knows with the Toronto Symphony.
Lindemann studied at the Juilliard School of Music, McGill University, has received an honorary doctorate from McMaster University and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music. As part of Alberta"s centenary celebrations in 2005, he gave a solo Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth World War II In May 2012, playing with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, he was the second Canadian trumpeter to perform as a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
