Rachel C. Walker

Parallels in Poland

March 22, 2019 RCW

A photo from last week’s dress rehearsal before the Polish premiere of My shadow forms a resonant shell:

Parallels Photos

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 RCW

A few photos from the premiere of My shadow forms a resonant shell with pianist Jill Jantzen and 4-Way Quartet last week in Cincinnati:

February rehearsals

February 6, 2019 RCW

A couple of photos from the Cincinnati rehearsals of Parallels with Jill Jantzen and the 4-Way String Quartet:

And one from after a great rehearsal with Sylvia Hinz, a few days ago in Berlin:

Cincinnati CityBeat ran an article on Parallels. Read more here.

Jill Jantzen and the 4-Way Quartet will be premiering a new work of mine alongside four other pieces by composers with ties to Warsaw and Cincinnati.

(Score excerpt: *My shadow forms a resonant shell, 2019).*

Parallels

January 20, 2019 RCW

Pianist Jill Jantzen & the 4-Way Quartet are premiering a new piece next month in Cincinnati as part of the concert series Salon 21.

The program will be repeated in Warsaw in March and features five premieres by Polish and American composers Aleksandra Chmielewska, Żaneta Rydzewska, Julia Seeholzer, Laura Harrison, and myself.

Accelerando

January 11, 2019 RCW

Colleen Phelps led a masterclass on and performance of cicada song in November with students in the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando Initiative:

International Contemporary Ensemble “Unboxing”

November 7, 2018 RCW

I had a chat yesterday morning with Zachary Good from the Chicago Initiative of ICECommons to discuss my new piece for solo recorder, Points of return.