Craig Walsh

Craig Walsh

Craig Thomas Walsh (born April 11, 1971 in Somerville, New Jersey) is an American composer.

Craig Walsh studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York City and Brandeis University in Boston. His major teachers include Martin Boykan, Eric Chasalow, Robert Cuckson, David Loeb, and Yehudi Wyner. He has received numerous awards for his work, including grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Meet the Composer and ASCAP. He currently teaches composition at the University of Arizona. Walsh's music is recorded on Albany Records, Centaur Records and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States CD series.

Walsh has focused on a variety of chamber music projects-both acoustic and electronic-since the 1990s. His work has been described as a “bright and snappy music rooted in modernism, but also referencing the carefree attitude of American pop culture...having brightly contrasting, sharply spliced sections, funkily angular rhythmic loops, motives that are disjunct and dissonant, but function a bit like pop hooks, and harmonies that aren’t tonal, but also tend to accept the idea that a ' center' isn’t a bad thing.” Fanfare magazine (March/April 2009). In 2008 Albany Records released Walsh's first solo CD, "Bugaboo", with the New York New Music Ensemble.