About
Born in New York City, Gwyneth Walker studied at Brown University and Hartt School of Music. She taught from 1976 to 1982, first at Oberlin and then at Hartford Conservatory and Hartt School of Music. In 1982, she gave up teaching to pursue composing full-time. She moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and has remained there ever since.
Her compositions are aimed at a wide audience, incorporating the everyday into composition (such as incorporating a tennis player into a performance at Lincoln Center) and giving performances in non-traditional venues (such as a dairy barn).
Her style of composition has been described as traditional and similar to that of Aaron Copland and Charles Ives.
–Christie Finn
Source: J. Michele Edwards’ article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Related Information
Songs
I Will Be Earth
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
In Autumn
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
Mornings Innocent
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
Mornings Innocent
Song CollectionGwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Women Should Be Pedestals
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
Recordings
The Sun is Love: Song Cycles
(Gwyneth Van Anden Walker, E. E. Cummings and May Swenson)
2005
Ah! Love, But A Day
(Amy Marcy Beach, Margaret Bonds, Libby Larsen, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Undine Smith Moore, Florence Price, Gladys Rich and Gwyneth Van Anden Walker)
1998
Though Love Be a Day
(Robert Beaser, Antonio Carlos Defeo and Gwyneth Van Anden Walker)
1999
Sheet Music
Mornings Innocent
Composer(s): Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
Song(s): 1. Women Should Be Pedestals
2. Mornings Innocent
3. In Autumn
4. I Will Be Earth
Voice Type: High
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