Lyndon Thompson is a French-American composer who divides his time between France and the UK. He studied at the Crane Conservatory of Music in Potsdam NY, before heading on to New York City, Los Angeles and eventually to Paris.
In Paris he studied at the Schola Cantorum under the composer Narçis Bonet, a student of Nadia Boulanger, whom he succeeded as Director of the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. Lyndon also studied with the composer Michel Merlet, a former student of Olivier Messiaen and professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. For a number of years Lyndon acted as interpreter for Merlet's Master Classes and individual composition tutorials at the summer institute of the European American Musical Alliance.
Lyndon's works have been performed at the Salle Cortot and Salle Madrid in Paris, and elsewhere in France. The second movement of his String Quartet n°1 won First Prize in the 2025 international ‘Music Madness’ competition held by Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, in North Carolina, US.