Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age and went on to receive BA, MM and DMA degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music, where she studied under Arnold Franchetti. She married composer David Burton on September 12, 1969; they divorced in 1974. She taught music for fourteen years at Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Conservatory and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and then moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and went to work as a full-time composer. In 1988, she helped found the Consortium of Vermont Composers and later became the director of the organization. Awards 1999 Brock Commission (American Choral Directors Association) 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award (Vermont Arts Council) 2008 Athenaeum Award for Achievement in the Arts and Humanities (St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Athenaeum) 2012 Elected as a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences 2017 Composer in Residence with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra in Petoskey, Michigan Works and discography Walker's compositions include song cycles, jazz, folksongs and spirituals, rock-and-roll, choral music, traditional folk songs, ballads and cantatas. Orchestral: An American Concerto for Violin and Orchestra on the CD "from the Mid-Columbia An American Concerto for Violin and Orchestra on the CD Paul Freeman Introduces... Siegmeister, Walker, Creston, Staar-Levy Instrumental: A Vision of Hills, Fantasy Etudes for violin and piano, New World Dances for piano trio, Craftsbury Trio for piano trio, Touch the Sky for cello and piano, and Vigil for violin and piano on the CD A Vision of Hills Fantasy Etudes for violin and piano on the CD Done e Doni Five Pieces for Flute and Guitar on the CD Returning the Muse to Music Five Pieces for Flute and Guitar and Silvermine Suite for flute and guitar on the CD Celestials Four American Folk Songs on the CD Birds Four Pieces for Lute on the CD The Renaissance Lute Raise the Roof! for brass quintet on the CD Americana: A University of Iowa Celebration and Strophes of the Night and Dawn Shaker Tunes for brass quintet on the CD Season to Dance Theme and Variation for flute and piano on the CD Legacy of the American Woman Composer Choral: An