James Linderman lives and works at theharmonyhouse, a music lesson, songwriting and recording preproduction facility in Newmarket, Ontario.
James conducted an academic audit for the online songwriting program at The Berklee School of Music in Boston in 2004-2005 and in April of 2006 James was selected for a 20 member, international, off campus, academic advisory board for Berkleemusic known as Berkleemusic Ambassadors which advises Berklee administrators and professors on issues such as learning management systems, online course strategies, and curriculum based technologies. In the summer of 2007 James was named Berkleemusic’s Worship Music Advisor.
James has been the co-moderator of the CCM Club at SongU, a Nashville based songwriting resource and in 2006, was co host of Radio Muse, an internet radio program specifically about songwriters and their work, with an estimated global audience of over 1 million listeners.
James has written monthly songwriting articles and music book reviews for The Muse’s Muse web magazine with an estimated 3 million international readers, Canadian Musician Magazine (songwriting / recording columnist) and has been a feature journalist for the Australian Songwriters Association magazine, Songbridge, and for many other regional and international print and online periodicals. His writing is also featured in the James Linderman Wing of the library at SongU in Nashville. It has been determined by the EOSC Music Alumni Association that James Linderman was the most widely read academic music journalist in the world in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
He cowrote a song in 2004 that was on hold for Bonnie Raitt called “Completely Yours”, and cowrote “Lead Me There” for Stephanie Israelson which received airplay in the UK and the US and on Canadian Christian radio, ranked in the top 50 songs for overall airplay in 2006 and stayed in the top 10 through most of 2007. James wrote “Life is Made for This” for recording artist Andy Taylor which charted consistently across Canada in the top 10 through 2007 and 2008. James also co-wrote “Home” with Katie Workman which is signed to a single song publishing deal with Next Number One in Nashville.
James is presently pitching songs to Warner Chappell Canada on a regular basis in pursuit of a Canadian publishing deal and is partnered with Life 100.3 Christian radio writing the songs for their annual Karaoke Superstar singing competitions.
James also does public workshops and private consulting for songwriters and artist in the areas of song creation, small and large music project development and arts grant funding. He is an active member of many music associations and does music jury work for FACTOR.
James is a featured guest presenter at The Power Up Gospel Music Conference in Toronto every year, The Producers Conference, and guest faculty at The Humber College Summer Songwriting Workshop.
James has a Canadian University and American College education in music theory, composition, and journalism and is pretty good at making up songs.
Contact James at: theharmonyhouse@rogers.com or jlinderman@berkleemusic.com