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​Hello, I'm David Walther.  
Welcome to my website. I have written music for chamber ensembles, keyboards, orchestra,
dance, voice, chorus, opera, and music theater. My Catalogue, to the right, lists 200 of my best pieces:  ​

You can hear some of my orchestral works: 

You can hear and watch my dance pieces: 

You can hear and watch some of my operas: 
Here is my short bio: 
B. A. in composition; The Juilliard School of Music, NYC, NY.
(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...  

2017   Six Songs of Innocence & Experience; Cologne, Germany.
2015   Swallow and The Prince; grant: The Town of Dedham, MA.
2012   Hamlet, commissioned: Boston Metro Opera. 
2012   Fire Chant commissioned: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants. 
2011    Birthday on The Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera Competition.  
2010   Antigon Boston Metro's Main-Stage Award International Competition. 
2010   Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize in The Longfellow Chorus Composition Competition. 
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Music performed by The Copley Square Ballet Company, Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow, M. I. T. Concert Band, Mobius, North Shore Civic Ballet,  and heard at OutLook Film and Video, NYC. Invocation for Organ commissioned by The American Guild of Organists and is published by E. C. Schirmer.

Artistic director of The Acting Singers Project, a 501(c)3 public charity in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.  Our website is: 

​You may email me at hrwr@earthlink.net:

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