Curriculum Vitae
David Edgar Walther (legal name: Walter)
Composer & Dramatic Bass-baritone
Phone: (617) 325-7745; Address: 126 Newburg Street, Roslindale, MA 02131
email: hrwr@earthlinklnet; website: www.davidedgarwalther.com
David Edgar Walther (legal name: Walter)
Composer & Dramatic Bass-baritone
Phone: (617) 325-7745; Address: 126 Newburg Street, Roslindale, MA 02131
email: hrwr@earthlinklnet; website: www.davidedgarwalther.com
Education: B. A. composition; Juilliard. (Honorary scholarship, junior year.) M. A. voice; Trenton State Teachers' College. Ph. D. work: Boston University (teaching fellow). 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 Orchestras, 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. 2022 - Rain (premiere) & 2023 - Cal'mus, Wien, Austria. 2017- Six Blake Songs, Cologne, Germany. 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: Aesops' Fables (Man, Lion); The Balcony (Bishop); Edward II (Edward II); Pinocchio (Gappetto, Fox, Coachman); Hamlet (Claudius);er Crocodile (Captain Hook); The Inquisition (4 roles); The Island Curse (Joseph'); The Swallow
and The Prince (Prince)
Bass Soloist: Bach: St. John & Matthew Passions; Christmas Oratorio (Pt I); ...; Beethoven: 9th Symphony*; Seymour Barab: Only a Miracle (Herod: New England premiere); Brahms: Requiem*; Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb; Merton Brown (premiere: Joyce Song); Bruckner: Te Deum*; Faure' Requiem* (Boston premiere of chamber version); Handel: Messiah*; Haydn: Creation; Mass in Time of War; Mozart: Requiem; Daniel Pinkham (Eight Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins); Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortilege (L'arbre)*; Schubert: (Mass in G*; Lazarus*; Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio; Wagner: Tristan
und Isolde (Marke); Sam Walter (premiere: Life's Circumnavigators).
(performances with orchestra are marked with *)
Performances of Compositions: NYC: St. John The Divine. Juilliard Orchestras, 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. 2022 - Rain (premiere) & 2023 - Cal'mus, Wien, Austria. 2017- Six Blake Songs, Cologne, Germany. 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: Aesops' Fables (Man, Lion); The Balcony (Bishop); Edward II (Edward II); Pinocchio (Gappetto, Fox, Coachman); Hamlet (Claudius);er Crocodile (Captain Hook); The Inquisition (4 roles); The Island Curse (Joseph'); The Swallow
and The Prince (Prince)
Bass Soloist: Bach: St. John & Matthew Passions; Christmas Oratorio (Pt I); ...; Beethoven: 9th Symphony*; Seymour Barab: Only a Miracle (Herod: New England premiere); Brahms: Requiem*; Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb; Merton Brown (premiere: Joyce Song); Bruckner: Te Deum*; Faure' Requiem* (Boston premiere of chamber version); Handel: Messiah*; Haydn: Creation; Mass in Time of War; Mozart: Requiem; Daniel Pinkham (Eight Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins); Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortilege (L'arbre)*; Schubert: (Mass in G*; Lazarus*; Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio; Wagner: Tristan
und Isolde (Marke); Sam Walter (premiere: Life's Circumnavigators).
(performances with orchestra are marked with *)
Résumé Highlights
Highlights: 2010-2024 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. |
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:
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: |
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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2011: Birthday On The Moon Second Place in
the Long Leaf Opera Composition Competition.
2012: Hamlet after William Shakespeare, two & a half hours; for 7 singers, narrator, & medium size orchestra; Commissioned by, and selections premiered with piano by, Boston Metro Opera. Only the following recording survives. Please click below to hear "Laertes' Lament" as sung by mezzo-soprano, Susan Craft Larson with pianist, Yelana Birayeva at BMO:
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 use the PDF to the right to see the orchestral score of the first scene of The Swallow and The Prince & push the button below to hear the music. |
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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, medium size orchestra., to the play of Jean Genet.
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, medium size orchestra., to the play of Jean Genet.
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.
2022: Rain has Fallen, a 14 minute song set to poems 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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2021-24: 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.
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.
Dr. Christopher Schoelen, guitar Blue Morpho is 3rd on the concert Anthony Wade dancer/choreographer