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Hello,I'm David Walther.
Welcome to my website.My music has now been heard by people on five of the eight continents. I have set all of the poems of James Joyce to music, and more poems by Emily Dickinson than anyone in history. My Catalogue, to the right, lists 200 of my best pieces (over 50 hours of music): |
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Education: B. A. in composition; The Juilliard School of Music, NYC. (honorary scholarship in Junior year.) M.A. in vocal performance: Trenton State Teachers' College Trenton, NJ. Ph.D. work at Boston University (teaching fellow; taught courses in ear training and keyboard harmony). Post graduate work at New England and Boston Conservatory in Opera (scholarship). Composition Teachers: Vincent Persichetti, David Diamond, Otto Luening... Voice Teachers: Oren Brown, Jerome Hines, Jeffrey Gall...
Music performed: Cathedral of St. John The Divine in NYC, Copley Square Ballet Company, Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow, M. I. T. Concert Band, Mobius, North Shore Civic Ballet, OutLook Film & Video, NYC; Hartmut Schulz, Cologne, Germany.
Grants: "Swallow and The Prince" grant from The Town of Dedham Cultural Council (for Acting Singers Project). Edward II: generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly for professional recording.
Commissions: Invocation for Organ: American Guild of Organists; published by E. C. Schirmer; Fire Chant: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants; Boston Metro Opera
Awards: Birthday on The Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera Competition; Antigon Boston Metro's Main-Stage Award International Competition; Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize: Longfellow Chorus Composition Competition.
Composer in Residence: Music Now & Now Dance (one of 3 composers; also Artistic Director); Prime Time for Kids at Masasoit College, Brockton, MA (also Music Director); Putnam Court Musicians (also regular performer);
Music performed: Cathedral of St. John The Divine in NYC, Copley Square Ballet Company, Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow, M. I. T. Concert Band, Mobius, North Shore Civic Ballet, OutLook Film & Video, NYC; Hartmut Schulz, Cologne, Germany.
Grants: "Swallow and The Prince" grant from The Town of Dedham Cultural Council (for Acting Singers Project). Edward II: generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly for professional recording.
Commissions: Invocation for Organ: American Guild of Organists; published by E. C. Schirmer; Fire Chant: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants; Boston Metro Opera
Awards: Birthday on The Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera Competition; Antigon Boston Metro's Main-Stage Award International Competition; Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize: Longfellow Chorus Composition Competition.
Composer in Residence: Music Now & Now Dance (one of 3 composers; also Artistic Director); Prime Time for Kids at Masasoit College, Brockton, MA (also Music Director); Putnam Court Musicians (also regular performer);
