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Following a career performing internationally, she was recruited to serve as Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2000 she served as Artistic Director of the Summer Music Festival at Indiana University and was invited to serve as Associate Dean in the Office of Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties while still serving as Professor of Music. In 2003 President Myles Brand asked her to serve in a new statewide position as Director of Arts and Cultural Outreach and Associate Dean of Research for Arts and Humanities. After 10 years at [[Indiana University]], Walker became Dean of Music at [[Sydney Conservatorium of Music]] in 2004.<ref>[http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=293 "New Dean at Sydney Conservatorium of Music"] retrieved 10.9.07</ref> |
Following a career performing internationally, she was recruited to serve as Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2000 she served as Artistic Director of the Summer Music Festival at Indiana University and was invited to serve as Associate Dean in the Office of Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties while still serving as Professor of Music. In 2003 President Myles Brand asked her to serve in a new statewide position as Director of Arts and Cultural Outreach and Associate Dean of Research for Arts and Humanities. After 10 years at [[Indiana University]], Walker became Dean of Music at [[Sydney Conservatorium of Music]] in 2004.<ref>[http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=293 "New Dean at Sydney Conservatorium of Music"] retrieved 10.9.07</ref> |
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Professor Walker's career as a bassoonist is well documented with a catalogue of well over 23 solo recordings available.<ref>[http://wwwusyd.edu.au/research/opportunities/supervisors/632] retrieved 9.5.09</ref> She continues to perform worldwide.<ref>[http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=2450] retrieved 9.5.2009</ref> |
Professor Walker's career as a bassoonist is well documented with a catalogue of well over 23 solo recordings available.<ref>[http://wwwusyd.edu.au/research/opportunities/supervisors/632] retrieved 9.5.09</ref> She continues to perform worldwide.<ref>[http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=2450] retrieved 9.5.2009</ref> |
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In 2008 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a report by former Federal Court judge, Roger Gyles, QC, found that internal support for her had evaporated for Prof. Walker and made the principal recommendation that her employment should be terminated. The Gyles Report found that there was a bona fide lack of confidence in her by "a significant majority of responsible senior academic staff" and there was no action that could be taken to restore it.{{fact|date=June 2014}} |
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In 2013 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Professor Walker is suing for damage to her reputation and the loss of future earnings, stemming from the university's decision not to renew her contract in 2011. She claims that none of the plagiarism allegations against her during her tenure at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music have been substantiated. |
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<ref>[http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac;jsessionid=D3575F3E3EED636B89141C950AD3F5A1?sy=afr&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=1month&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=brs&cls=192&clsPage=1&docID=SMH130216LH5AV5FAC4T] retrieved 9.5.09</ref> |
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Kim Walker is a bassoonist of Scottish/American origins. She has performed throughout Europe and the US, and in China, and been prominent at leading Music Festivals such as Ravinia, Wolf Trap, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart in the US, Prades, Luzern, Korsholm, Schleswig-Holstein and London Proms in Europe. As a soloist she has performed with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, Berlin RIAS orchestra, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and many other orchestras under the batons of Oliver Knussen, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Richard Hickox, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jane Glover, Arvo Volmer and others.[citation needed]
Life
Walker graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 1975, receiving the Young Artist Award, a Presidential National Merit Scholarship award and academic distinctions. She then studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Dr Sol Schoenbach and later with Roger Birnstingl at the Geneva Conservatory in Europe where in 1979 at the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve she achieved their highest award – “Premier Prix de Virtuosite”. She furthered her studies on period instruments, working with Walter Stiftner at the Scuola Cantorum Basel, 1982–83. In 2002 she attended the ENPL (Executive Non-Profit Leadership) course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and in 2009 the AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors) company director’s course.[citation needed]
Following a career performing internationally, she was recruited to serve as Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2000 she served as Artistic Director of the Summer Music Festival at Indiana University and was invited to serve as Associate Dean in the Office of Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties while still serving as Professor of Music. In 2003 President Myles Brand asked her to serve in a new statewide position as Director of Arts and Cultural Outreach and Associate Dean of Research for Arts and Humanities. After 10 years at Indiana University, Walker became Dean of Music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004.[1] Professor Walker's career as a bassoonist is well documented with a catalogue of well over 23 solo recordings available.[2] She continues to perform worldwide.[3]