John Lindsey holds the highest rank conferred upon a faculty member  in  the State University of New York System, the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor. Mr. Lindsey has been on the violin faculty at the internationally known Crane School of Music since 1981. In 1993 he was awarded the SUNY Potsdam President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and, in 2003, the prestigious State University of New York Chanceller’s Award, also for Excellence in Teaching. He was recognized by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England, with the 2003 International Musician of the Year Award and with the Mozart Award for Musical Achievement in the Fall of 2008. In 1989 he was selected   from over 200 applicants as the winner of the city of Dayton’s Annual Allegro Residency for the Arts.
Mr. Lindsey is in demand as a Concertmaster, soloist, and chamber musician, as well as teacher and chamber music coach. He is presently the Concertmaster of the ELEVA Chamber Players (VT) and the Orchestra of Northern New York (NY) and has served as Concertmaster of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra (KY), the Dallas (TX) Chamber Soloists, The Warren (OH) Chamber Orchestra. the Castle Farm Festival Orchestra (MI), and the Hanover (NH) Chamber Orchestra. In 1973 he was Concertmaster of an orchestra which toured Israel and Jordan. The final concert was given at the Cultural Palace in Amman for King Hussein of Jordan. In 1978 he played chamber music for  Prince Philip of England.
Mr. Lindsey has appeared in solo recitals at The Carnegie Recital Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center (five times) and in Boston, Montreal, Dallas, and Chicago on the Dame Myra Hess Series. In February 2009, he gave his 3rd recital and workshop in 16 months on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.

Prior to his appointment at The Crane School of Music, Mr. Lindsey was Chairman of Strings at Baylor University, The Governor’s School of North Carolina, and the University of Kentucky. He also taught strings in the Dallas, Texas, public schools. He is listed in twelve national and international who’s who publications, among them Who’s Who in American Music, International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Directory of Distinguished Americans, and Who’s Who in International Music.
In the summer, Mr. Lindsey is a member of the violin faculties of the Ameropa Festival in  Prague (CZ), the Adult Chamber Music Conference at Interlochen, Michigan, and the Mozart Festival in Woodstock, Vermont. In previous summers he was on the faculties of  the 2008 International Chamber Music Festival and Concert Tour in Bulgaria, the Ithaca Chamber Music Institute (NY), the National Music Camp at Interlochen (MI), the Illinois Summer Youth Chamber Music Camp(IL), the Ottawa Suzuki Institute (KS), the Southeastern Music Camp (GA), the Stage de Musique in Marcillat-en-Combraille, France, and the Canna International Chamber  Music Festival in Canna, Italy. Mr. Lindsey and his wife Amornrat have founded the International Chamber Music Festival in Thailand, held annually in Thailand during the winter holiday season.