MURRAY C. WALKER has been the Director of Music and Choirmaster at Calvary Episcopal Church, Santa Cruz since 1996. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Mr. Walker holds music degrees in choral conducting from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and California State University, Long Beach. He is retired from a forty-year career as a music educator, most recently at the York School in Monterey. His singing career has included the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the choirs of (the former) St. Paul’s Cathedral of Los Angeles, Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal and Norwich Cathedral in England. He served as conductor of the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony from 1988-1993. mwalker@calvarysantacruz.org
ORGANIST: ETHAN WILLIAMS
ETHAN WILLIAMS holds a B.A. in Music with Honors in Performance from Stanford University, where he studied organ with Robert Huw Morgan and harpsichord with Elaine Thornburgh. He has subsequently continued his organ studies under Wyatt Smith and Margaret Kwamme, dabbled with Baroque and Renaissance wind instruments, and performed with a variety of ensembles, most recently playing continuo in Bach’s Magnificat and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Following a Ph.D. in geophysics at Caltech and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, Ethan joined the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, where he looks at waves and listens to sounds in the ocean.
