Faculty
Gregory Walker, Violinist and Multimedia Guitarist
“...excellent soloist...” The New York Times
Professor Gregory T.S. Walker graduated from Indiana University with a B.S. in Music and English with Honors before performing solo synthesizer concerts throughout California under the auspices of the U.C. Touring Artist program and obtaining a Masters degree in Computer Music from the University of California at San Diego. He premiered his Concerto No. 1 for Orchestra and Synthesizer with the Oakland Sinfonietta and earned a second Masters in Composition from Mills College, then completed a Doctorate in Musical Composition at the University of Colorado in 1992.
Since his marathon performance of Bruch’s Kol Nidre, an original arrangement of Ora No Omboko, and his own Bad Rap for Violin and Chamber Orchestra with the Colorado Symphony on a borrowed Stradivarius in 1996, Walker has been featured with American orchestras such as the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, the Ft. Collins Symphony, the Yaquina Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and abroad at Great Britain’s Lake District Music Festival, Cuba’s Encuentro Musical de los Americas, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. Concertmaster of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Walker is equally at home on acoustic and electric instruments having recorded Kaleidoscope: The Music of African American Women with pianist Helen Walker-Hill and appeared with pop star Lyle Lovett. Albums available on CRI, Orion, Leonarda, and Albany labels feature the "silky violin tone and beautifully calibrated phrasing" described by the Newark Star-Ledger.
In 2000, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship. His guitar work has been featured in Guitar for the Practicing Musician and his xy techno theatre multimedia production garnered a Sonic Circuits International Festival invitation in 2002. His 2006 Electric Vivaldi Newport Classic enhanced compact disc, a radical interpretation/remix of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons violin concerti with the Boulder Philharmonic, provided license for the incorporation of synthesizer programming, experimental and popular styles. Walker’s contributions to the American contemporary musical scene are acknowledged in a cover story in the April 2007 International Musician magazine. In 2009, he has been engaged to record with the Sinfonia Varsova in Warsaw, Poland and present the world premiere of the George Walker Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Additional information on Gregory
Walker.
Gregory.Walker@ucdenver.edu
303.556.4009
GREGORY T.S. WALKER
Professor of Music
Indiana University, B.S.
University of California, San Diego, M.A.
Mills College, M.A.
University of Colorado, D.M.A.
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