Curriculum Vitae
David Edgar Walther (legal name: Walter)
Composer & Dramatic Bass
Phone: (617) 325-7745; Address: 126 Newburg Street, Roslindale, MA 02131
email: [email protected]; website: www.davidedgarwalther.com
David Edgar Walther (legal name: Walter)
Composer & Dramatic Bass
Phone: (617) 325-7745; Address: 126 Newburg Street, Roslindale, MA 02131
email: [email protected]; website: www.davidedgarwalther.com
Upcoming: March 20-29, 2026: Off Nights at the Sometimes Cafe': A Sex Mystery
to be premiered in Chicago on March 20-22 and 26-29, 2026
by The Thompson Street Opera Company:
to be premiered in Chicago on March 20-22 and 26-29, 2026
by The Thompson Street Opera Company:
Education: B. A. composition; Juilliard. (Honorary scholarship, junior year.) M. A. voice; Trenton State Teachers' College. Ph. D. work: Boston University (teaching fellow; taught courses in ear training and keyboard harmony). Postgraduate: New England/Boston Conservatory (opera; scholarship). Composition Teachers: Persichetti, Diamond, Luening, del Tredici... et al. Voice Teachers: Oren Brown, Jerome Hines, Jeffrey Gall... et al.
Performances of Compositions: NYC: St. John The Divine. Juilliard Concert String Orchestra and Juilliard Concert Orchestra, OutLook Film & Video. Resurrection. Boston: Boston Metro Opera. Copley Square Ballet. M.I.T. Concert Band. King’s Chapel. Mobius. Marblehead Ballet. Old South. Trinity. Other: Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow. Opera on Tap Vienna. Hometown USA Film & Video: honorable mention. Invocation for Organ, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, E. C. Schirmer, publisher.
Recent Events: 2/10/24 - Gigue for Clavichord (premiere) 8/3/24 -Blue Morpho for guitar and male dancer (premiere), 15 minutes of Fame. In 2022 - Rain (premiere) & 2023 - Cal'mus, Wien, Austria. 2017- Six Blake Songs, Cologne, Germany. In 2015 - Swallow and Prince, Grant: Town of Dedham, MA. 2012 - Hamlet; commission: Boston Metro Opera. 2012 - Fire Chant commission: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants. 2011 - Birthday on the Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera. 2010 - Antigon Main Stage: Boston Metro Opera. 2010 - Edward II: grant: Daniel B. Kelly. 2010 - Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize: Longfellow Chorus.
Artistic Director/Composer in Residence: Music Now (AD); Prime Time For Kids, Masasoit College, (AD/ CR); Putnam Court Musicians (CR); Acting Singers Project, Inc. (current & founding AD) Website: http://actingsingersproject.com
Soloist in my own works (partial list) *= live; ** = audio **** = cablecast video.
Aesops' Fables (Man, Lion)*; The Balcony (Bishop)***; Edward II (Edward II)** (professional recording with 7 singers & 11 instruments); Pinocchio (Gappetto, Fox, Coachman; staged ballet)***; Hamlet (Claudius)*; Peter Crocodile (Captain Hook)**;
The Inquisition (4 roles)***; The Island Curse (Joseph')**; The Other Wiseman*** (commission); The Swallow and The Prince (Prince) (Grant
from the town of Dedham, MA)**
Bass Soloist (partial list): **** = performance with orchestra: Bach: Matthew Passion;
Christmas Oratorio (Pt I) ...; Beethoven: 9th Symphony****; Seymour Barab:
Only a Miracle (Herod: New England premiere); Bizet: Pearl Fishers (Nourabad)****; Brahms: Requiem****; Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb; Merton Brown (premieres: Cat Duets, & Three James Joyce Songs); Bruckner: Te Deum****; Fauré Requiem**** (Boston premiere of chamber version); Handel Messiah****; Haydn: Paulkenmessa; Creation; Mozart: Requiem; Daniel Pinkham: Eight Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilege (L'arbre)****; Schubert: Mass in G*****: Saint-Saens: Christmas Oragtorio: Wagner: (Marke)*** Dr. Sam Walter Life's Circumnavigaters. (premiere)
Résumé Highlights
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Highlights: 2010-2025 2010: Edward II a two and a half hour opera for 6 singers, narrator, and medium-sized orchestra after Christopher Marlowe; professionally recorded with 11 instruments by Acting Singers Project on a generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly. Please clickon Christopher Marlowe to hear our almost complete recording of Edward II. |
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2010: Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director’s Prize Longfellow Chorus Competition
2010: Blessings on Your Home First place in the Boston Metro Opera International Composition Competition; choral music category; poem by Drew Hubbard; premiered by BMO: Part of 2 Myths a 75 minute set of 2 operas for voices, chorus and chamber ensemble. Please click the button below to listen to Blessings:
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2010: Antigon after Sophocles, Main-Stage Award in Boston Metro Opera International Composer Competition: Opera Division; one hour and 15 minutes; for 4 voices and medium-sized orchestra. Antigon is the first of three short works included in the 2 hour collection: Three Character Studies. The BMO performed Antigon with piano. Please click on
the brother or sister to the right to watch excerpts from Antigon: |
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Please click on Antigon, as played by Sarah May, soprano to hear "Antigon's Farewell" and use the PDF to see the score of the final sounds of ANTIGON:
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2010: Aesop Fables. 30 minutes, partially performed by Boston Metro Opera.
2011: Birthday On The Moon Second Place in the Long Leaf Opera Composition Competition; 20 minute opera.
2012: Hamlet after William Shakespeare, two & a half hours; for 8 singers, narrator, & medium size orchestra; The orchestral score will be available in early July, 2025. Commissioned by, and selections premiered with piano by, Boston Metro Opera.
Please click below to hear "Laertes' Lament" as sung by mezzo-soprano,
Susan Craft Larson with pianist, Yelana Birayeva at BMO:
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2015: The Swallow and The Prince after Oscar Wilde. 45 minute opera for 4-6 singers, medium size orchestra; performed with flute & piano by Acting Singers Project under an arts council grant from the Town of Dedham. You can hear this performance by clicking on "The Swallow" or The Prince" to the right: Please click on one of the "Lovers" to the right to view the complete orchestral score and see the video of the first production of The Swallow and The Prince: |
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2016: King Lear: after William Shakespeare;
90 minutes; 7 singers & narrator,with piano or medium size orchestra.
2017: Songs of Summer, a set to poems by William Blake had its European premier in Cologne, Germany by baritone, Hartmut Shultz.
2018-19: The Balcony: 4-13 singers, two hour & 13 minute opera for 4-13 singers with medium size orchestra or piano,based on the English version the play by Jean Genet as translated by Bernard Fretchmann.
2020: Covid-19: a Cantata Ballet for low voice, speaker, male or female chorus, with chamber ensemble (95 minutes) or medium size orchestra (1 hour and 50 minutes).
The Year of the Plagues: for s soprano, bass and chorus with medium orchestra.
90 minutes; 7 singers & narrator,with piano or medium size orchestra.
2017: Songs of Summer, a set to poems by William Blake had its European premier in Cologne, Germany by baritone, Hartmut Shultz.
2018-19: The Balcony: 4-13 singers, two hour & 13 minute opera for 4-13 singers with medium size orchestra or piano,based on the English version the play by Jean Genet as translated by Bernard Fretchmann.
2020: Covid-19: a Cantata Ballet for low voice, speaker, male or female chorus, with chamber ensemble (95 minutes) or medium size orchestra (1 hour and 50 minutes).
The Year of the Plagues: for s soprano, bass and chorus with medium orchestra.
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2022: Rain has Fallen, a 14 minute song set to pomes by James Joyce was premiered by baritone, Hartmut Shultz on 3/10/22 at the Academia Arte, Alser Str. 28, 1019, Vienna. 2023: Cal'mus: a song set to poems by Walt Whitman, will receive its European premiere by baritone, Hartmut Shultz, on 11/4/23 in Kleiner Ehrbar-Saal in Vienna, as part of a concert called "Four Seasons in America / Fall" by the Opera on Tap Vienna Chapter. |
Hartmut Shultz: lyric baritone
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2021-25: concerti for a concerto oboe & trumpet; and for three double reed instruments; as well as some orchestral song sets & other pieces for orchestra, including another symphony for large orchestra. I also worked on choral music, music theater, chamber music & vocal music, including an unaccompanied song cycle. 2024: "The Masque of The Witches" an occult thriller for vocal soloists, actors, dancers, SATB choir & chorus with medium orchestra: 2/2/2/2/ 2/2/2/1 perc. hrp. & str.. 2025: "Masque of the Red Death" for medium orchestra; score reconstructed & slightly revised, originally written (age 17) when I a senior at Juilliard, read by the Juilliard orchestra (age 18). Remastering early recordings that have been added to this site. Reworked all song cycles for low voice for recording and performance. Revision of "Masque of The Witches."
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February 10, 2024 with 15 minutes of Fame: Monica Chew premiered my "Gigue for Chavichord" on line. To hear the concert, and see the lineup (I'm #7 on the program @ 23 minutes & 23 seconds) please click the button below to hear the Gigue: |
Please click on the picture above to learn more about
Monica Chew, Clavichord |
August 2, 2024 with 15 minues of Fame: Dr. Christopher Schoelen premiered the piece on with groupmuse in Central Harlem, NY. At The Tyler Loftis Studio, NYC, Dr. Schoelen performed Blue Morpho with dancer/choreographer Anthony Wade. To learn more about Dr. Schoelen & Mr. Wade, please click on thier photos below. To hear the entire concert, with dance, please click on BLUE MORPHO, center below; Blue Morpho is third on the program, at 8 minutes & 55 seconds.
August 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) on NYC cable access TV with Manhattan Neighborhood's Network channel 2, Dr. Schoelen will again perform my Blue Morpho
for solo guitar. 15 minutes of Fame is produced by Robert Voisey and Vox Novus. You can hear this performance at
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Dr. Christopher Schoelen, guitar Blue Morpho is 3rd on the concert Anthony Wade dancer/choreographer
August 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) on NYC cable access TV with Manhattan Neighborhood's Network channel 2, Dr. Schoelen will again perform my Blue Morpho
for solo guitar. 15 minutes of Fame is produced by Robert Voisey and Vox Novus.
for solo guitar. 15 minutes of Fame is produced by Robert Voisey and Vox Novus.
March 20-29, 2026: Off Nights at the Sometimes Cafe': A Sex Mystery will be
premered Ma March 20-22 and 26-29, 2026 by Thompson Street Opera Company:
premered Ma March 20-22 and 26-29, 2026 by Thompson Street Opera Company: