Jeffrey Walker, Chorusmaster

Now in his second season as Chorusmaster for the Windsor Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Conductor of the University of Windsor Singers, Jeffrey Walker holds organ performance degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music. He is a past winner of the prestigious American Guild of Organists National Competition. He studied conducting with Daniel Moe and Robert Baustian at Oberlin, and James G. Smith at Eastman. He was a full-time church musician for 25 years, conducting choirs of all ages. Having completed an 18-year tenure at the First Presbyterian Church of Flint, Michigan, he is now in his fourth season as Organist/Choirmaster of Christ Episcopal Church in Detroit, where he directs a semi-professional parish choir. He is instructor of organ and harpsichord at the Flint Institute of Music, and performs regularly in the Flint Symphony Orchestra.  He also maintains a busy schedule as a piano, organ, and harpsichord tuner/technician throughout mid-Michigan.

While at First Presbyterian Church, Mr. Walker instituted a concert series to feature significant choral repertoire with professional orchestra. The 70-voice Chancel Choir sang such works as Mozart's Coronation Mass and Solemn Vespers, the Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Beethoven Mass in C, Schubert's Mass in B-flat, and the Duruflé Requiem. The choir was invited to participate in performances in New York City under the auspices of Mid-America Productions, including Mendelssohn's Elijah at Carnegie Hall, and the Brahms Requiem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.