Gwyneth Van Anden Walker

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to 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 (1968) from Brown University, and MM (1970) and DMA (1976) degrees in Music Composition from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, 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 moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and went to work as a full-time composer. In 1988, she helped found the Consortium of Vermont Composers and later became the director of the organization. Walker currently spends time in New Canaan, Connecticut, Sarasota, Florida, and Randolph, Vermont. The Chord The original Gwyneth Walker Chord is heard in the opening bars of Gwyneth Walker’s Earth-Shaking Choral piece ‘Tell the Earth to Shake’ for SATB Chorus and Chamber Orchestra or Piano. It is made up of the notes A, Bb, D, and E: Awards *1999 Brock Commission (American Choral Directors Association) *2000 Lifet