W. Ian Walker

W. Ian Walker is a Canadian Christian involved in acting, dance, film, music, new media, news, publishing, radio, television, theatre, visual arts and writing ministry in Canada.
W. Ian Walker has been an Arts Administrator and Arts Fundraiser since :Category:1980 and has worked with mostly Choral and Orchestral Arts Management organizations. 
==Media Service==
W. Ian Walker's company in Mississauga, Ontario Emlian Communications Group Inc. can assist Christian artists, ministries and individuals with the following:
* Musician, vocal and choral music specialist also for arts marketing, public relations and media accommodations services
* Professional development and fundraising services
* Special events marketing
* Author- "Stirring My Soul To Sing, Overcoming Obstacles of ADHD" autobiography dealing with ADHD issues from a Christian perspective-soon to be published in 2017.
Ian has been a Baritone chorister and active member with the Orpheus Choir of Toronto for nine years under Robert Cooper, C.M. Artistic Director of the Choir. Mr. Cooper has been close friend and mentor to Ian since he first sang in the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir in the early 1980’s. 
In the fall of 2005, W. Ian Walker became the Founder and Music Director of the Youth Choir for the Nations Canada. He has helped the group form its own Board of Directors and will soon have its own charitable status.
Between 2008-2009, this "multicultural youth choir" have been invited to perform in several venues in Southern Ontario, Montreal, Quebec for the summer of 2009. As of January 2017, the Youth Choir will be under Hamilton Christian Fellowship and its community arts programming.. We are constantly recruiting Christian Youth from the ages of 8-17 in the Golden Horseshoe area, to join this amazing choir.
In October of 2016, Ian launched "Hamilton Christian Fellowship Adult Choir" consisting of ten singers that have a passion for singing and for choral music. They performed their premiere performance on December 18, 2016 in "A Choral Christmas" with song, carols and poems read by varied members of the church congregation. Ian is available to work with your church choir for workshops or seminars as he has over 50 years of experience and training dealing with youth to adult choirs.
In December of 2006, Ian and the Youth Choir for the Nations Canada appeared on "100 Huntley Street” with international Christian Artist "Nancy Honeytree-Millar" and sang in English and Urdu. 
When time permits, W. Ian Walker also acts as a baritone soloist and a worship leader for Christian events and other special services. With his wife Elaine, they attend Hamilton Christian Fellowship and are blessed by the fellowship of Christian artists within the Golden Horseshoe and Greater Toronto area.
==Contact==
W. Ian Walker can be contacted via:
Emlian Communications Group Inc.
138 West 23rd Street, Hamilton, ON Canada L9C 4V7
289-700-7005
* www.emliancommunications.com ]
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/emlian4evr?trk=hp-identity-name
* https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=emlian%20communications%20group
* https://www.instagram.com/emlianwiw/
These social networks pages are in the development stages, I'm currently developing my web page!
==Christian Testimony==
W. Ian Walker became a Christian in 1972, when he gave his heart to the Lord. Ian was raised in Christian family, where love of the Word and love of "praise and worship music" were a part of family life for him and his siblings. Raised in Dundas, ON, the Walker Family were an important "pillar family" at Dundas Baptist Church (both Ian's mother, Doreen and Bill Walker have passed in 2010 and 2012) as they served the church and its missionaries within the Christian community of Hamilton-Wentworth for many years. 
Ian states that "the DNA of ministry" are in his genes as both his Walker grandparents were "preacher's kids" and the church was vital part of their lives. Ian's mother's family were originally Anglican (Church of England) however when they came to Canada in early 1915 from England...they enjoyed the fellowship of the Baptist church where three generations of the "Rashleigh" family now are involved.
==Media Career Tips==
W. Ian Walker recommends that you go to this "publications page" on his website to see the published articles that he has written about various topics in the Arts Please follow this link at: .
☀http://www.emliancommunications.com/published-articles.html
==How to Help W. Ian Walker==
You can help W. Ian Walker by
When a booking is coming together for either solo performance or involving the Youth Choir, please let me know the following:
A) The theme of the event that you would like special Christian music to be sung/performed
B) The size of the church or special venue
C) If your church or special hall has adequate sound system (otherwise may need to be brought in and added to cost of the event)
D) If suitable baby grand or upright piano (has been recently tuned)is available for performance/service?
E) Payment structure...honorarium or fee structure
F) Any community media or public relations will be involved to promote the concert/event?
==Worth Quoting from W. Ian Walker==
"When an art form is created, the question is how do you come to it, and not does it come to you. Beethoven's music is not going to come to you, you have to come to it. Or in reference to the art and style of Picasso and Shakespeare; when you go to it, you get the benefit of the art form." 
Wynton Marsalis
==Accolades For W. Ian Walker==
==References==
Mr. Robert Cooper, CM Toronto Conductor & Mentor 
rmcooper@rogers.com
Ms. Joanne Wallgren, Retired Christian Fundraising Consultant/Writer
bjoanne@rogers.com
Rev. Henry D'Silva, Christian Evangelistic Ministries/Co-Founder of Youth Choir for the Nations
henry.dsilv_cem@yahoo.ca
==Links==
Links from other sources about W. Ian Walker's arts, music or media ministry go here.
 Christianity -> Christian literature, art, music and media -> Media -> Media in Canada -> Media Workers in Canada
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