Paul Walker

M.M. in Organ Performance from the University of Kansas; further study at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany; Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His academic professors have included David Fuller, James McKinnon, and Jeremy Noble; organ study with Michael Schneider and James Moeser, harpsichord with Hugo Ruf. Included in the Early Music Ensembles under his leadership are Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vocal Ensemble, Viola da Gamba Consort, Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and Recorder Consort.

Academic specialties and interests encompass many aspects of music before 1750, including extensive research in the early history of fugue and the music of J. S. Bach and his predecessors. His teaching includes the Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque portions of the undergraduate history curriculum, as well as specialized courses in such topics as Bach and the fundamentals of basso continuo playing. Among Professor Walker's significant publications are the book Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2000) and the articles on fugue and related topics for the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Professor Walker founded and still directs the Charlottesville-based early music vocal ensemble Zephyrus, which is about to enter its fourteenth year and which released its third CD, of Flemish music ca. 1500, in the fall of 2004.