Craig Walsh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American composer
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1971
Place of Birth: Somerville, New Jersey, United States
Profession: composer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Craig Walsh
- Craig Thomas Walsh (born April 11, 1971, in Somerville, New Jersey) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. Craig Walsh studied at the Mannes College of Music (BM) and Brandeis University (MFA, PhD).
- In addition, he studied education and human development at Framingham State University, becoming certified in the state of Massachusetts in 1996.
- He worked at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston before leaving to focus on creative research, publishing, and academic pedagogy. Walsh's awards for his original compositions include grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Meet the Composer, Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo, Lee Ettelson Award for Chamber Music, Siday Musical Creativity Award from the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), among others.
- He previously taught at Brandeis University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Bridgewater State University, and the University of Arizona. Craig Walsh's music can be heard on Albany Records, Centaur Records and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States CD series. His work has been described as “bright and snappy music rooted in modernism, but also referencing the carefree attitude of American pop culture...having brightly contrasting, sharply spliced sections, funkily angular rhythmic loops, motives that are disjunct and dissonant, but function a bit like pop hooks, and harmonies that aren’t tonal, but also tend to accept the idea that a '[tonal] center' isn’t a bad thing” (Fanfare Magazine, March/April 2009).
- In 2008 Albany Records released Walsh's first solo CD, Bugaboo, with the New York New Music Ensemble.
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