Craig Walsh

Craig Walsh
Birth name Craig Thomas Walsh
Born (1971-04-11) April 11, 1971
Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Genres Concert Music
Electronic Art Music
Experimental Music
Occupation(s) Composer
Musician
Professor
Instruments Piano
Composition
Years active 1989–present
"Zook for chamber ensemble" excerpt
From the album Bugaboo (Albany Records 2008).

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Craig Thomas Walsh (born April 11, 1971, in Somerville, New Jersey) is an American composer.

Walsh studied at the Mannes School of Music and Brandeis University. He has received numerous awards for his work, including grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Meet the Composer and ASCAP, among others, and is Associate Professor of Music Composition at the University of Arizona.[1] Walsh's music is recorded on Albany Records, Centaur Records and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States CD series.

Walsh's work has been described as “bright and snappy music rooted in modernism, but also referencing the carefree attitude of American pop culture...having brightly contrasting, sharply spliced sections, funkily angular rhythmic loops, motives that are disjunct and dissonant, but function a bit like pop hooks, and harmonies that aren’t tonal, but also tend to accept the idea that a '[tonal] center' isn’t a bad thing”[2] (Fanfare Magazine, March/April 2009). In 2008 Albany Records released Walsh's first solo CD, Bugaboo, with the New York New Music Ensemble.

Selected works

Recordings

Degrees

Major teachers include Laurie Altman, Martin Boykan, Eric Chasalow, Robert Cuckson, David Loeb, and Yehudi Wyner.

References

External links

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