Guest Artist Gregory T.S. Walker

Since a marathon performance of Bruch’s Kol Nidre, an original arrangement of Ora No Omboko, and his Bad Rap for Violin and Chamber Orchestra with the Colorado Symphony in 1996, Gregory T.S. Walker has charted his own creative course while developing unique collaborations with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, the Ft. Collins Symphony, the Yaquina Chamber Orchestra, and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, as well as Poland’s Filharmonia Sudecka and the Encuentro Musical de los Americas in Havana, Cuba. He has frequented Great Britain’s Lake District Music Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Cork Orchestral Society in Ireland, and the Lamia Conservatoire in Greece.

Walker received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship in 2000. He has also been profiled in Guitar for the Practicing Musician, his work as a multimedia performance artist has been showcased at the Sonic Circuits International Festival and the New West Electronic Arts & Media Organization Festival, and he is featured on the cover of the April 2007 International Musician magazine.

Now a professor at the University of Colorado Denver, his discography showcases the "silky violin tone and beautifully calibrated phrasing" described by the Newark Star-Ledger. Among these CRI, Orion, Leonarda, and Albany recordings is Kaleidoscope: The Music of African American Women, with pianist Helen Walker-Hill. An official NS Design and Zeta electric violin artist, he has also appeared with pop star Lyle Lovett. His Electric Vivaldi Newport Classic enhanced compact disc, an interpretation/remix of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, was released in 2006. He is currently working with filmmaker Charles Fryberger on Song of the Untouchable (http://songoftheuntouchable.com/ ), a documentary film project that led him to Kerala, India to perform with Dalit caste musicians. And in 2013, Centaur Records compact disc release of Electric Vivaldi: Global Solstice has brought Walker's symphonic electric guitar vision to an international audience.