Gwyneth Van Anden Walker


Gwyneth Van Anden Walker is an American music educator and composer.

Biography

Gwyneth Van Anden was born in New York of a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age, and went on to receive BA, MM and DMA degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music, where she studied under Arnold Franchetti. She taught music for fourteen years at Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Conservatory and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and then went to work as a full-time composer. In 2000 she received the Vermont Arts Council's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Works and discography

Walker's compositions include song cycles, jazz, folksongs and spirituals, rock-and-roll, choral music, traditional folk songs, ballads and cantatas.
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