Mylinda received her B.Mus. from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC in the studio of Margaret Mueller. While attending Salem College she was awarded the Shirley Music Honor Scholarship Award, Winnie P. Simpson Award for most outstanding music theory student and the Rondthaler Music Composition Award, honorable mention. She went on to receive her Master of Music in organ performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts where she was an organ student of John Mueller and the recipient of the Kennan Organ Scholarship for "Outstanding Talent." She has studied piano with Jane Carlson at the Juilliard School and Academy of Musik in Sion, Switzerland. Upon coming to central Kentucky, she has done post-baccalaureate studies in organ with Dr. Schuyler Robinson at U.K. Mylinda has performed over 3,000 concerts throughout the southeast, New York and Switzerland as both a soloist and chamber musician on college and university concert series, including a debut of Michael Kurick's Nocturne 1 at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.  

Mylinda was invited to travel to Alabama as one of six musicians chosen to be a part of a study based in Germany, working with specialists in holistic approaches to help alleviate injury, improve technique and beauty of sound at the keyboard. Later, she continued her travels throughout the country, working with the doctors, specialists, and concert artists to further her research.  She has a love of teaching, with over 25 years of experience in both Suzuki and traditional style. She is also known as an early childhood music specialist holding certifications in Musikgarten®, Kindermusik®, and third level Orff Schulwerk®. 

While living in North Carolina, Mylinda assisted in the founding of several ongoing community music activities. This involvement culminated in the formation of the Trinity Music Academy in Troy, North Carolina, a church-based community school that offers equitable access to music instruction. Trinity Music Academy was later featured in an international publication (The Living Church) as a model for churches to follow when expanding their outreach through the musical arts.

After the formation of Musicorps, Inc. in 1997, Mylinda began the drive to form what is now the Music Institute of Lexington in Lexington, Kentucky, along with Dr. Frank Dickey, former president of the University of Kentucky, Dr. Schuyler Robinson, professor of organ at the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Bill Jones, assistant professor of trumpet at the Appalachian State University.  She has now been involved in the management of community music organizations for more than sixteen years.

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