Lynette was a prize winner at the 1978 Violin Festival and the 1980 National Music Competition (Violin Open). She obtained her LRSM performing diplomas by the age of 15 on both the piano and the violin. A year later, she was awarded the George Eastman Merit Scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in the USA. She distinguished herself as the most promising violinist among the graduands when she was the only violinist to be awarded the Performer’s Certificate together with the Bachelor of Music degree in 1984. She was also one of the youngest students in the history of the school to be accorded that recognition.
Among her teachers were Sylvia Rosenberg, Zvi Zeitlin, and the late Josef Gingold, Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Music where she graduated with a Master of Music degree, with Distinction. Lynette also had chamber music coachings with members of the Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets. In 1986, Lynette returned to Eastman and taught as an assistant to Professor Sylvia Rosenberg while pursuing a Doctorate in Musical Arts.
Lynette has been featured in solo and chamber music concerts throughout America, in Germany and also Japan. She collaborated with conductor Dennis Russell Davies at the Aspen Music Festival and was invited by Gunter Schuller and Louis Krasner to be a Fellow at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood.
Upon her return to Singapore, Lynette helped to set up the String Department at the LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts where she was Head of Strings for 6 years. She directed the LaSalle Baroque Players and is active as a chamber recitalist. In 1991, Lynette was invited to be a violin tutor at the Asean Music Workshop in Indonesia. Lynette was also the former Co-ordinator for Strings at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts where she conducted the NAFA String Ensemble and coached chamber music.
Presently, she maintains a busy teaching schedule. Her students count among the best in the local music scene: from Concertmasters and principals of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra to prizewinners at local and International music competitions. Some have represented Singapore in the Asian and Asean Youth Orchestras and at other International music festivals in Japan, Australia and Europe. Others have won scholarships to pursue music degrees in top conservatories in Germany, England and the USA.