Robin Walker was born in Lancashire in 1975, and began his musical training as a Chorister at Ripon Cathedral. He later spent a year as organ scholar at Blackburn Cathedral before moving to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Whilst at the Academy Robin won the Organ Recital Award, and prizes for choral conducting and church music. He studied with David Titterington and Patrick Russill, and improvisation with Naji Hakim, and graduated from the Academy with DipRAM, the Academy’s Gold medal.
Robin has given recitals at St Paul’s, Southwark, Blackburn and Westminster Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, St John’s Smith Square, in Wisbech, Cambridge, Athens (Greece) and Bergen (Norway). He has performed Saint-Saens ‘Organ’ Symphony at St John’s, Smith Square, and appeared on BBC and independent radio and television. A passionate interest in newly written music for the organ has led to premiere performances by Nimrod Borenstein, Ian Coleman and Richard Dubugnon, and performances in the 2007 Annual Festival of New Organ Music. He is currently working with American composer Frederick Frahm on a project to record a number of his organ works in 2009.
As accompanist he has performed in Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, with the Sancta Sunniva Choir in Norway, and many other British and European venues. He is regular accompanist to Berkhamsted Choral Society, with whom he has performed in Rouen Cathedral, Bonn Basilica, Barcelona Cathedral and Brussels Cathedral.
He performs as soloist and continuo player on the harpsichord and chamber organ, and teaches organ in London and in St Albans for the New School of Organ Studies. Robin is Director of Music of St Mary’s RC church in Hampstead and Organist to the Icelandic Church in London. Before moving to St Mary’s Hampstead he was Director of Music at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, where he began the restoration of the 18th century English Baroque organ by celebrated organ builder William Drake.
Robin is available for concerts in the UK, Europe and North America. He has space for students in London. Fees on request.