Gregory T.S. Walker

Gregory T.S. Walker (born 19 October 1961) is an American violinist, guitarist, electronic musician, composer and author.
Biography
Gregory T.S. Walker is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker, and music historian Helen Walker-Hill, as well as the brother of playwright Ian Walker,. After studies with violinist Yuval Yaron, Walker graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science in Music and English in 1983. He performed solo synthesizer concerts throughout California under the auspices of the University of California Touring Artists program before obtaining a Masters degree in Computer Music from the University of California at San Diego in 1985. He performed his Concerto No. 1 for Orchestra and Synthesizer with the Oakland Sinfonietta and earned a second Masters in Composition from Mills College in 1987, then completed a Doctorate in Musical Composition at the University of Colorado in 1992. Dr. Walker currently serves as a professor at the University of Colorado Denver. In 1993, the Colorado Symphony commissioned Walker to compose what has been acknowledged as the first “rap symphony,” Dream N. the Hood He received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship in 2000. Walker has also been profiled in Guitar for the Practicing Musician, his work as a multimedia performance artist has been showcased at the Sonic Circuits International Festival and the New West Electronic Arts & Media Organization Festival, and he is featured on the cover of the April 2007 International Musician magazine.
Walker has been featured in soloist engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Oberlin Orchestra, the Encuentro Musical de los Americas in Havana, Cuba, the Detroit Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, Poland's Filharmonia Sudecka, and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, as well as at the Library of Congress, England's Lake District Music Festival, Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras, Peking University, and the Cork Orchestral Society Concert Series in Ireland. His compositions have been performed by violinists Lindsay Deutsch, Tami Lee Hughes, the Moscow String Quartet, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Encuentro Musical de los Americas, and the Colorado Symphony. The subject of the internationally-distributed 2012 documentary, Song of the Untouchable, he is an official NS Design, Fishman, and Livid Instruments endorsing artist, with a discography including releases from the Albany, CRI, Orion, Leonarda labels, Newport Classics and Centaur, including his acclaimed Electric Vivaldi Four Seasons and Global Solstice recordings. In addition to serving as concertmaster of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra (1987-2013), he has performed with Lyle Lovett, DJ Sekhar, Botanica, and Swing Je T'aime. He is presently Artistic Director of the Colorado NeXt Music Fest.
Walker's novel, Trigram Cluster Funk, is published by Double Dragon Press.
Works
* Rock, Pop and Hip Hop Fantasies for Two Violins (2016)
* Kawanakajima for Video Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (2016)
* for CyberGuitar and Symphony Orchestra (2013)
* La La, and the Life Goes On for Violin and Piano (2010)
* Looking for the Perfect Planet for Amplified Chorus and Video Sampler(2009)
* danC for Chamber Orchestra (2008)
* The Passion According to St. Toscanini for Quadraphonic Chorus and Orchestra (2003)
* Dreamcatcher for Electronic Violin and Orchestra (2003)
* 1+1+1=3 for Orchestra (2003)
* Magic Man for Amplified Chamber Orchestra (2002)
* mysterium conceptionis immaculatae for Orchestra (2000)
* the mountain's third face for Solo Piano (1999)
* Bad Rap for Electric Violin and Chamber Orchestra (Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, 1994)
* Like This/Like 'Dis for String Quartet/String Orchestra (1987/1994)
* Dream N. the Hood for Rapper and Orchestra (1993)
* micro*phone for Amplified Orchestra (Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, 1999)
* Sonata for Violin and Piano (Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, 1989)

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