For the month of January, we are pleased to welcome Walker Whitehouse as an organ scholar at Trinity.
Walker is a Massachusetts native who is currently finishing a dual degree studying music and computer science at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. Walker has a close connection to Trinity in Copley Square, most notably that his great-grandfather Horace Whitehouse was assistant organist at Trinity for four years after graduating from the New England Conservatory.
A versatile musician, Walker began his studies with piano and cello before designing a unique major in Early and World Music, exploring performance traditions from historical organ and harpsichord to bebop and Cuban Batá. Studying organ under Jonathan Moyer, and Harpsichord under Mark Edwards with a focus on historical performance, the great musical traditions of yesteryear have become close to his heart. As a scholar of music, Walker completed two summer research projects studying 17-18th century Neapolitan music pedagogy, specifically Partimenti and Solfeggi, which culminated in a presentation at the Galant Schemata Conference and attendance at the Partimento Symposium hosted by the Universität für Musik in Vienna.
He is Organist at St. Barnabas Episcopal in Bay Village, Ohio where he has organized and performed diverse concerts of secular and sacred organ music, bebop and swing, string chamber music, and a harpsichord recital with Oberlin Baroque Violin Professor Edwin Huizinga. Outside of music, Walker enjoys a good long stroll, and has an affinity for the ocean.