About
Now located in Burbank, California, Walker majored in composition at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, studying composition with George Akerley and minoring in piano under the tutelage of concert pianist Annette DiMedio, Ph.D. During his senior year in Philadelphia, he attended a seminar at Curtis Institute of Music given by two-time Grammy and Oscar winner for best film score, John Corigliano. After the seminar, Mr. Corigliano invited Walker to continue studying privately with him as he continued to pursue a Masters degree at the City University of New York. His clients are well served because of his vast knowledge and musical education; his experience and ability to interpret his collaborators needs from start to finish is an asset to any project.
Film Composer
Walker has written scores for over 40 different film projects and recently won best film score at the Idyllwild International Film Festival two years in a row in the short film category. In 2023, for the film Promises, directed by Faye Brenner and in 2024 for Hard Light, directed by Harry Heng. Walker created original orchestral arrangements of several Christmas songs for the newly released feature film, St. Nick of Bethlehem, which enjoyed a theatrical release nationwide for November 2024. Also in 2024, he scored the short film, Who Knows?, starring Sergio Jimenez, directed by Brandon Rozo. Who Knows? has won sixteen awards at various film festivals, four of which were for best score. Other wins this year at festivals were for the acclaimed short film, Révérence In the past, Walker has also written music for several interstitials that were broadcasted for various children’s programming on PBS nationwide from 1999 to 2008. Since publishing the interstitials on his YouTube channel, he has over 60,000 views.
Classical Composer
Walker has written a string quartet, a piano concerto, a sonata for cello and piano, an Elegy for Piano Trio, pieces for violin and piano and solo piano, a flute suite, and a suite for woodwind quintet. His Flute Suite in D Major, from 2016, for flute and piano and his Winter in the Woods, from 2018, for alto flute and prepared piano, both pieces recorded by Rebecca Jeffreys, are currently in rotation on Pandora Radio and on over 100 individual terrestrial classical radio stations throughout the United States, Canada, South America and various stations in Europe. The Elegy for Piano Trio, which was written for Dr. Annette DiMedio, has been performed by her throughout the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Some of his classical pieces can either been seen or heard on this website.
Orchestrator
Besides orchestrating every film score Walker has composed, he has also orchestrated two different Christmas musicals at The Broadway Theater of Pitman, in New Jersey, for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. For the 2017 original Christmas musical, One Unforgettable Christmas, he also wrote two original songs for the musical. The previous year, he orchestrated, produced and recorded the cast album for the original musical, Once Upon a Christmas Dream for the 2016 musical at The Broadway Theater of Pitman. The theater has approximately 9000 patrons attend the Christmas performances each year. Some of the songs from the cast album, Once Upon a Christmas Dream, can be heard on this website.
Producer
Walker has personally composed, produced, arranged and/or engineered hundreds of projects and seen many full album projects to their completion. He has worked in various genres such as, pop, rock, jazz, Latin jazz, classical, opera and many others, some of which can also be heard here on this website.
Community Involvement
Before leaving for the Los Angeles area in 2019, Walker was involved with various organizations throughout the Philadelphia area.
Up until the final season of 2018, he was the President of The Steinway Society of South Jersey; a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children in the teaching and appreciation of piano music. The Steinway Society of South Jersey held several solo piano performances each year, including a Young Pianist competition.
Walker taught piano at The Original Paul Green School of Rock and reported directly to Paul Green himself at the Center City Philadelphia chapter. He has taught and worked with interns at mSound Recording Studios, many of whom have been affiliated through The University of the Arts, Temple University, The Philadelphia Center, and Albright College, just to name a few.
Walker was also one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Recording Community. This organization started with only 15 and is now comprised of over 4,300 artisan members affiliated with recording and music in the Philadelphia area; they hold various meetings throughout the year. In growing the organization, seminars were incorporated at the gatherings and Walker has had the pleasure of lecturing on various subjects such as composing music for film, creating dynamic musical arrangements for recordings, sound engineering, how digital audio works, and the significance of parallel compression.
Walker has authored several articles published in Origivation Magazine (now called THAT MAG) in Philadelphia, on various subjects such as the direction of digital audio for the future and the status of local recording studios. He has judged and/or lectured about music composition for film, sound engineering and mixing for film, ADR, recording, and location sound for film for various institutions such as Temple University, The University of the Arts, Albright College, The Philadelphia Center, The Philadelphia Film Festival, and The City Paper Film Festival.