DAVID EDGAR WALTHER IMPRESSIONIST: PASSIONATE DARK; DEEP NIGHT DREAMS
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              GENERAL INFORMATION
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AWARDS, COMMISSIONS and SELECTED PERFORMANCES


​2015    Grant from the town of Dedham, MA to perform The Swallow and The Prince
2012    Hamlet after William Shakespeare, Commissioned, selections performed, Boston Metro Opera 
2012    Fire Chant, Commissioned by Non-Verbal Sacred Chants  
2011    Birthday On The Moon Second Place Long Leaf Opera Competition 
2010   Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director’s Prize Longfellow Chorus Competition  
2010   Antigon performed: Main-stage Award BMO International Composer Competition: Opera Division 
2010   Blessings on Your Home First Place BMO International Composer Competition: Choral Division  
2010   Edward II  Full Length Opera in Six Tableaux Professionally recorded by Acting Singers Project
2009  Psalms of Peace  (# V) Performed at Old South (# I: earlier at King's Chapel under Daniel Pinkham) 
2003  The Swallow and The Prince  An Opera in One-Act Premiered by Acting Singers Project
2001   Kali premiered in concert by Acting Singers Project
2000 The Sin-Eater cablecast on BNN TV
2000  The Acting Singers Project formed; artistic director; live and cablecast on BNN TV 
1995    The Journey (Selections) An Opera in One-Act Premiered by Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow
1992    6 Snapshots for Flute used in Auto-Portamatic, a video by TJ Norris
1992    Auto-Portamatic shown at the Outlook Film & Video Festival in NYC 
1990    Pinocchio
Commissioned and performed, by The Marblehead Ballet 
1990   The Balcony one scene from incomplete full length opera cablecast on BNN TV
1990    Invocation for Organ Commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the Biennial National                     Convention in Boston; published by E. C. Schirmer  

1980s and 1990s:    Crazy Dinosaurs
 (animation), Out-Tv (live action music theater). Composer, animator, singer and producer. Cablecast on BNN TV and winner of honorable mention and second place in The Hometown USA Film and Video Competition.
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EDUCATION   
Post-Graduate Studies in Opera: New England/Boston Conservatory (Scholarship offered)
Doctoral work in Composition:   Boston University (Fellow in Ear Training and Keyboard Harmony)
Master of Arts in Voice: Trenton State Teacher’s College (Teaching Assistant in Ear Training)
Bachelor of Music  in Composition:  Julliard  (Honorary Scholarship: Sophomore year)


TEACHERS 
Composition: Calvin Hampton; Juilliard:  David Diamond, Otto Leuning, and Vincent Persichetti;  
Boston University:  Joyce Mekeel, John Thow, and David Del Tredici;  
Rutgers University: Contemporary Counterpoint:  Robert Moevs;  
Juilliard Prep (age 17):  Robert Huffstader and Lawrence Widdoes;   
University of Vermont Summer Session for High School Students (age 16): Mel Solomon; 
Private Harmony, Counterpoint and Composition (age 13-16): Marilyn Keiser.     
Voice:  Juilliard:  Oren Brown; Metropolitan Opera: Jeffrey Gall and Jerome Hines, 
   
Vocal Coaches:  New England Conservatory: Michael Strauss; and Metropolitan Opera: Valery Ryvkin   

Piano:  Kyriena Silotti, Dr. Thomas Richner, Dr. James Scott, and Phyllis Lehrer (collaborative piano).   
Guitar (age 10-12):  Martha Blackman.


COMPOSER RESIDENCIES
Music Director:  Prime Time for Kids at Massasoit College, Brockton, MA
Composer and Singer:  Putnam Court Musicians, Danvers, MA
Music Director:  Music Now and Now Dance, Boston, MA

Music Director:  Acting Singers Project, Boston, MA website: actingsingersproject.com
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PRESS
"Walther is a formidably prolific composer; he writes music constantly and has a seemingly endless stream of ideas for new projects..." 

Roger Edmonton, The Advocate; full page article with full page photograph on Crazy Dinosaurs. 

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"Easily the highlight of the concert were several arrangements by David Edgar Walther... Especially satisfying was Walther's setting of three familiar folk songs, a medley that managed to sidestep all the stereotypes with a version of Simple Gifts that owed absolutely nothing to Aaron Copeland's. Walther's touching arrangements of Long Time Ago set Mary Saunders' rich, soprano peeping through the lush harmonic haze of flute and guitar like the sun through the clouds.' 

George W. Harper, Beverly Times. ​




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  • Listen
    • Orchestral Music
    • Opera & Oratorio
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    • Opera
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  • About
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Biography >
      • short bio
    • Education
    • Teachers
    • Press
    • Activism
    • Family
    • Crazy Dinosaurs >
      • Watch Crazy Dinosaurs
      • Watch Eurydice
      • Watch Dynosaur
  • Pieces
    • I. Chamber
    • II. Keyboard
    • III. Orchestra
    • IV. Dance
    • V. Voice
    • VI. Chorus
    • VII. Opera
    • VIII. Music Theater
    • IX. Critical Editions
    • James Joyce
    • Emily Dickinson
  • Photos
  • Contact
  • Lavender Scores