Craig Walsh

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

Walsh studied at the Mannes College of Music (B.Mus.) in New York City and Brandeis University (M.F.A., Ph.D). His major teachers included Martin Boykan, Eric Chasalow, Robert Cuckson, David Loeb, and Yehudi Wyner. He has received numerous awards for his work, including grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Meet the Composer and ASCAP. He currently teaches composition at the University of Arizona.^[1] His music is recorded on the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States CD series, Centaur Records, and Albany Records and published by European American Music and CraigWalshMusic, ASCAP.

Walsh has focused on a variety of chamber music projects-both acoustic and electronic-since the 1990s. In 2008 Albany Records released Walsh's first solo CD, "Bugaboo", with the New York New Music Ensemble. In 2010, the Manhattan String Quartet premiered his String Quartet in Bosnia & Herzegovina as part of a project sponsored by the United States Embassy. http://sarajevo.usembassy.gov/event_20100520.html

Selected works

• String Quartet (2010)
• Sugar Touch for alto saxophone and electro-acoustic music (2008)
• Cookin' the Books for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion (2008)
• Neshanic Wanes for piano trio (2007)
• Pointing Out Your Ruse for violin and percussion (2005)
• Terma for soprano and digital media (2004)
• Chaconnesque for clarinet, viola, and piano (2003)
• Bugaboo for chamber orchestra (2002)
• Schism for clarinet and viola (2000)
• Lines for piano solo (2000)
• Radix for digital media (1999)
• Junket for digital media (1999)
• Pipeline Burst Cache for amplified cello and digital media (1998)
• Fallout City for digital media (1997)
• Zook for trumpet, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1997)
• Shifting Trajectories for digital media (1996)
• Citrine for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and harpsichord (1995)
• Zoom for violin and piano (1995)
• 0 to 33 in 1098.5 for violin, clarinet (1994)
• Black Scissors for prepared piano(1993)

Recordings

• "Pointing out your Ruse" for violin and percussion on the album "Playing the Edge". Mark Rush, violin. Albany Records (TROY 1199) (2010)
• "Bugaboo, The Chamber Music of Craig Walsh featuring The New York New Music Ensemble", Albany Records (TROY 1047) (2008)
• Terma for soprano and electro-acoustic music, Society of Electro-Acoustic Music In the US CD series vol. 14 (2004)
• Schism for clarinet and viola, Centaur Records (2002)
• Pipeline Burst Cache for cello and electro-acoustic music, Society of Electro-Acoustic Music In the US CD series vol. 9 (1999)

References

1. ^ Faculty profile from University of Arizona

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