Lyndon Thompson is a French-American composer who divides his time between France and the UK. He was raised in upstate New York, near Lake Ontario. He taught himself to read music on the family's electric organ, which was later exchanged for an upright piano. 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, Director of the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau and later Assistant Director of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. 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 nascent European American Musical Alliance.
Lyndon's works have been performed at the Salle Cortot and Salle Madrid in Paris, and elsewhere in France. He is a member of the Union des Compositeurs de Musiques de Films.