Adam Walker
Britain's Adam Walker became the principal flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra when he was 21. After winning major awards and scholarships, he launched a successful solo career.
Walker was born in 1987 in Retford, in England's Nottinghamshire region. He took up the recorder in school and started piano lessons at seven. Then, when he was nine, his parents gave him a toy flute that they bought out of the trunk of a car, and he took to it immediately. A teacher suggested that he apply to Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and he was admitted. His teacher there was Gitte Sorensen. In 2002, Walker became the youngest-ever winner of the British Flute Society Competition, and he racked up several more major prizes and competition showings, including a finalist slot in the BBC Young Musicians Competition in 2004, performing Nielsen's Flute Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Walker went on to the Royal Academy of Music, where he had earned a scholarship; he studied there with Michael Cox. In 2007, he appeared on the album Rhian Samuel: Light and Water on the Deux-Elles label. Walker's first solo album was 2013's Vocalise, on the Opus Arte label.
Walker has performed with most of the major British orchestras, and his career as a soloist has taken him to many foreign countries. He has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, among many other groups. He is the founder of a wind group, the Orsino Ensemble, which has appeared at major venues, including the Musée du Louvre, De Singel Antwerp, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. A performer with a strong commitment to contemporary music, Walker has given the world premieres of new works by such major composers as Brett Dean (The Siduri Dances), Kevin Puts (a Flute Concerto), and Huw Watkins (also a flute concerto). He recorded the Puts work for the Naxos label in 2016. In 2021, Walker moved to the Chandos label, issuing the album French Works for Flute. In 2023, he issued three albums on Chandos, including Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute.
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Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute
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Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 5 May 2023
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Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Sinfonia Of London, John Wilson, Adam Walker
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 14 Jul 2023
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Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx
Adam Walker, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 5 Apr 2024
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Shadow Dances, British Works for Flute
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 5 May 2023
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Dutilleux: Le Loup, Sonatine, Sonate & Sarabande et Cortège
John Wilson, Sinfonia Of London, Adam Walker, Juliana Koch, Jonathan Davies
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 28 May 2021
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Kevin Puts: Symphony No. 2, Flute Concerto & River's Rush
Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Adam Walker, Marin Alsop
Classical - Released by Naxos on 12 Aug 2016
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Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, FS 60 "Sinfonia espansiva": IV. Finale. Allegro
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Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 22 Mar 2024
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French Works for Flute
Adam Walker, Timothy Ridout, James Baillieu
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Apr 2021
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Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto & Symphony
Alina Ibragimova, Adam Walker, Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
Classical - Released by NMC Recordings on 21 Sep 2018
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Nielsen: Flute Concerto, FS 119: II. Allegretto, un poco
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Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 2024
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Alzheimers
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Adam Walker on 15 Apr 2021
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An Orange Wreckage
Alternative & Indie - Released by 3947480 Records DK on 20 May 2022
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Pump It
House - Released by Soulsearcher Recordings on 26 Feb 2018
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Home
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Adam Walker on 14 Feb 2021
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Illusion
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Adam Walker on 20 Oct 2020
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Light At The End.
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Adam Walker on 13 Nov 2020
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Love
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Adam Walker on 15 Mar 2021
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You Are Not Alone
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Adam Walker on 8 Dec 2023
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