ROBERT WALSH

BIO/DESCRIPTION

Robert Walsh – Short Bio
Robert Walsh is an award-winning singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist, musical director, composer/arranger, author and educator. He has released five albums as a solo artist, four as part of a group (including Allez Ouest), and co-written four musicals, the latest of which, “Rubaboo” (with Andrea Menard), he performed in London ON, Vancouver and Edmonton in 2023-24, and won three Sterling Awards (including Oustanding Score and Musical Direction). He is the author of “Sculpting Air – A Whole Persons Approach to Songwriting”, and “Bob’s Book of Music Theory “), and taught Songwriting and other subjects in the music department at MacEwan University for thirteen years. He is currently working on several solo projects, an internet musical, and an album with friend and collaborator Pierre Sabourin. He has been a guitarist-for-hire for many recording projects, pit musicals, operas, ballets, big bands and solo artists, and was the principal guitarist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for two decades. Robert grew up in Montréal, where he got his BMUS from McGill, put ten years into Toronto, and settled in Edmonton in 1996. He performs regularly in English and French.