Editing Ray Lynch (section)

==Early life==
Lynch was born on July 3, 1943, in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]].<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Ray Lynch|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-lynch-mn0000870589|website=AllMusic|access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name=Cymbiosis>{{cite journal|last=Yanow|first=Scott|title=Fine Instrumental Cuisine from Ray Lynch|journal=[[Cymbiosis]]|date=August 1987|volume=1|issue=3|pages=22–23; 41|location=West Covina, California|isbn=9780793556878|issn=0895-6936|oclc=16743840|quote=Born 3 July 1943 in Salt Lake City...'With my wife and kid I moved to Barcelona, Spain to study with a very good teacher, Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, for 3 years.'}}</ref> As the second of four children, Lynch was raised in [[West Texas]].<ref name="Primary1">{{cite news|last=Lynch|first=Ray|title=Ray Lynch: Up Close and Personal|url=http://www.raylynch.com/up_close_and_personal/index.html|access-date=April 2, 2017|work=www.raylynch.com}}</ref><ref name=Canada>{{cite news|last1=Strachan|first1=Alex|title=Love for music can be deadly|work=[[The Vancouver Sun]]|date=October 19, 1993|accessdate=October 23, 2022|page=E2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111857299/love-for-music-can-be-deadly-alex-stra/}}</ref> Lynch's father was a lawyer;<ref name=Siblings>{{cite journal|last=Biehl|first=Kathy|title=Calm Yourself|journal=[[ABA Journal]]|date=October 1989|volume=75|issue=10|page=122|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/abaj75&i=1286|access-date=February 2, 2018|quote=...try anything by Stephen Halpern or Ray Lynch (who is, coincidentally, the son and brother of lawyers) or Kay Gardner's "Rainbow Path."}}</ref> Lynch's mother was a noted watercolorist and an amateur pianist who influenced him to create music as a child. Other early influences included [[hymns]] and [[soundtracks]].<ref name=CDReview1>{{cite journal|last=Van Ness|first=Chris|title=New Age's Renaissance Man|journal=[[CD Review]]|date=August 1989|volume=6|issue=12|page=40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iw9AQAAIAAJ&q=Its+juxtaposing+two+things+that+you+wouldn%27t|access-date=February 28, 2017|quote=Now at 45, Lynch became hooked on music early. 'I remember being very moved, at the age of 3 or 4, by some of the music I heard in church, and later by music from the movies. Also, I was influenced by my mother, who was a good amateur pianist.'}}</ref> Lynch began studying the piano at the age of six. At age twelve, he was inspired by [[Andrés Segovia]]'s classical recordings and decided to pursue a career in music.<ref name="Primary1"/><ref name=CDReview2/> After attending [[High school (North America)|High School]] in both [[St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin, Texas)|St. Stephen's Episcopal School]] and [[Stephen F. Austin High School (Austin, Texas)|Austin High School]],{{efn|In interviews, Lynch says he was raised in West Texas,<ref name="Primary1"/> but he also says that his high schools were in Austin, which is in central Texas.<ref name="Primary2"/>}} Lynch went to the Austin campus of the [[University of Texas]]. After studying there for a year, he moved to [[Barcelona, Spain|Barcelona]] with his then wife Ginny and his child.<ref name=Cymbiosis/> Over there, he was apprenticed to Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, a [[classical guitar]] teacher. Three years later Lynch returned to the university to study composition with various instruments including guitar, [[lute]], and [[vihuela]].<ref name=Raymond>{{cite journal|title=The Renaissance Quartet to perform|journal=[[University of California, San Diego|UC San Diego]]|date=February 13, 1969|quote=Raymond Lynch, who will play the lute, began his musical studies on the guitar, which he perfected in Barcelona, Spain, under the tutelage of one of the great masters of the guitar, Eduardo Sains de la Maza. When he returned to the United States to the University of Texas, he developed a technical command of the lute, vihuela and guitar.}}</ref><ref name=CDReview2>{{cite journal|last=Van Ness|first=Chris|title=New Age's Renaissance Man|journal=[[CD Review]]|date=August 1989|volume=6|issue=12|page=40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iw9AQAAIAAJ&q=Its+juxtaposing+two+things+that+you+wouldn%27t|access-date=February 28, 2017|quote=at age 12, however, he took up classical guitar. He studied under guitarist Eduardo Sainz de la Maza in Barcelona in the early 1960s, and later attended the University of Texas in Austin to study composition.}}</ref><ref name=Keyboard1>{{cite journal|last=Widders-Ellis|first=Andy|title=Ray Lynch: Exploring the Structure of Music|journal=[[Keyboard (magazine)|Keyboard]]|date=December 1989|volume=15|issue=12|page=29|quote=[Lynch] studied composition at the University of Texas, where he wrote experimental orchestral pieces, and learned classical guitar in Spain.}}</ref><ref name="Teacher">{{cite journal|title=To Present Concert|journal=The Ithaca Journal|date=February 1, 1969|volume=155|issue=28|page=5|quote=Lynch, who performs early music, began his musical studies on the guitar. He studied in Barcelona, Spain under Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. He returned to the United States and continued to study guitar as well as lute and vihuela at the University of Texas. Recently, he taught these instruments as part of an Early Music Symposium in Tasco, Mexico ([[sic]]).}}</ref> While Lynch went on to become a musician, his siblings ended up becoming lawyers.<ref name=Siblings/>