Author: Paul Mark Walker
Alternate names: Walker, Paul, 1953-; Walker, Paul Mark; পল ওয়াকার; Walker, Paul Mark 1953-....; Walker, Paul Mark, 1953-...., musicologue
Born: 1953
Bio: Paul Walker is a musicologist and performer who specializes in the history of fugue and of music from the early modern era. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia, and joins the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in fall 2011. He authored the articles on fugue and related topics for New Grove II, and his book Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2000) won the American Bach Society’s biennial William H. Scheide Prize in 2002. He is also a member of the editorial board for the Collected Works of Dieterich Buxtehude published by Broude Brothers, and his Charlottesville-based ensemble Zephyrus released in 2010 its fifth CD, entitled Fifteenth-Century Choirs.-Oxford