Faculty Information

Gregory Walker

Gregory Walker

Professor
  • Music and Entertainment Studies (CAM)

Email Address:gregory.walker@ucdenver.edu

Primary Phone:303-315-7453

Mailing Address:
  • CU Denver

Arts Building

1150 10th Street

Denver, CO 80204

Gregory T.S. Walker is an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship recipient and International Musician cover artist. His Dream N. the Hood for Rapper and Orchestra was described by the Minneapolis Pioneer Press as "an American masterpiece". While concertmaster of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Walker deconstructed New Orleans voodoo artifacts in Gris-Gris Man for Video Violin at the Tokyo NWEAMO Festival and explored the music and culture of India's caste system in the documentary "Song of the Untouchable". His music has been performed by Poland's Filharmonia Sudecka, the Detroit Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, and the Encuentro Musical de los Americas in Cuba, as well as at Great Britain’s Lake District Music Festival, the Lamia Conservatoire in Greece, and the Cork Orchestral Society Concert Series in Ireland, the London Song Festival, and at the Chetana International Music Festival in Kerala, India. A multi-instrumentalist who has appeared as a violin soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and has been profiled in Guitar for the Practicing Musician, his "Bad Rap for Electric Violin and Chamber Orchestra" is published by Keiser Music and Global Solstice for Electronic Guitar and Chamber Orchestra was released on the Centaur label.

Areas of Expertise

Guitar
Violin
Viola
Strings
New Electronics Orchestra
History of Rock and Roll
World Pop
Musical Composition

Education, Licensure & Certifications

University of Colorado
DMA; Musical Composition

University of California San Diego
MA; Computer Music

Mills College
MA; Electronic Music Composition

Indiana University
BS; Honors in Music and English





Awards

American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship, International Musician cover artist

Affiliations

NS Design, Livid and Zeta Instruments Artist

College of Arts & Media

CU Denver

Arts Building

1150 10th Street

Suite 177

Denver, CO 80204


303-315-7400

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