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Anna-Louise Walton
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Anna-Louise Walton

Anna-Louise Walton is an American composer of chamber and electronic music. Though she did not start composing formally until her junior year at Scripps College, where she received a B.A. in music, she grew up playing the piano and singing from a young age.  She then went on to study composition at Kunstuniversität Graz with Beat Furrer. Walton received an M.A. in music composition from Tulane University in 2018 after which she went on to study Sonology at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She is currently pursuing a DMA in composition at Columbia University. Her works have been performed by ensembles such as TAK ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Trio Catch, Fonema Consort, Quatuor Diotima, Surplus Ensemble a.o. Her music has also been featured at MATA Festival, IRCAMs ManiFeste, Darmstadt Summer Course, Heidelberger Frühling, impuls Festival, VIPA Festival, highSCORE Festival a.o. In 2019, she was awarded a BMI Student Composer Award.

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2021