Sheet music by Nick Walker

As Associate Professor of Music at Ithaca College, Walker demonstrates the art of playing in the broadest sense: he shows the full capacity of the instrument, and guides students to new levels in the traditional repertoire, early music, new music, jazz music, as well as in the art of improvisation and creative collaboration.

Walker has been on the faculty at the BassWorks Festival in Adelaide, Australia; the Domaine Forget Music Festival, Quebec; at the Rabbath Institute, Washington, D.C.; and he has lectured for the International Society of Bassists, the New York American String Teachers Association/National String Orchestra Association, the Suzuki Association of America, and for the New York State School Music Association on bass pedagogy. Walker has given masterclasses and recitals at Peabody, Baldwin Wallace University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Nazareth College, the Eastman School of Music, at Oberlin College, the New England Conservatory of Music, Sookmyoung University in Soeul Korea, Concordia College in Adelaide Australia, at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg, both the China and Central Conservatories in Beijing, as well as at conservatories inOslo, Amsterdam, the Hague, Rostock, Leipzig, Hannover, and Berlin. Before beginning as a full time faculty member at Ithaca College, Walker was on the faculty of the Stony Brook Pre-College Program, the Music Conservatory of Westchester, and Mansfield University.