Friday Music Series: The Walker Chronicles: Music of Gregory T.S. Walker

Artist Biographies

Violinist, composer, and guitarist Gregory T.S. Walker has developed unique collaborations with the Colorado Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has been engaged at Norway's Tromsø Cathedral Series, the Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras, the Cork Orchestral Society Concert Series in Ireland, the Genesis Concert Series in Beijing, the NWEAMO Festival in Tokyo, and at the U.S. Library of Congress. An American Academy of Arts and Letters fellowship-winning composer, University of Colorado Denver professor, and sometime guitar hero profiled in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine, Walker was featured in the documentary film, Song of the Untouchable.

Multi-instrumentalist Lori Wolf Walker received her Master of Music degree in piano performance at the University of Colorado Boulder. She was a prizewinner in several competitions in the Southwestern United States and has performed around the world as part of the Walker Duo. Her broad range of musical experience includes several years performing as an electric bassist and synthesist with rock bands in Los Angeles and as a violinist in the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. A CD entitled Electric Vivaldi, on which she is featured as synthesist was released on the Newport Classic label in 2006.

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