{"id":7983,"date":"2021-01-09T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/test\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:27:12","slug":"blogpostashwalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogpostashwalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ash Walker, choral director and community musician"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7983\" class=\"elementor elementor-7983\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f8ef6bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f8ef6bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51baec18\" data-id=\"51baec18\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a0fd61a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a0fd61a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, when Ash Walker applied to become the music director of <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificedgevoices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pacific Edge Voices<\/a>, he was full of ideas for taking the acclaimed Berkeley choral group\u2014originally called Pacific Mozart Ensemble\u2014beyond its 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary and into an exciting and creative future. By the time his appointment was officially announced, in August 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had upended his\u2014and the world\u2019s\u2014plans. Ash has risen to the unprecedented challenge in this new job and in his other roles: as professor of voice at Las Positas Community College in Livermore and as cantor and choir director at St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral of the Assumption in San Francisco. As he told us in a phone interview, \u201cThe pandemic has pushed me to be more than I thought possible as a musician and choral director.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogpostashwalker\/#more-7983\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\">Read More\u2026<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\"Meet Ash Walker, choral director and community musician\"<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2019, when Ash Walker applied to become the music director of Pacific Edge Voices, he was full of ideas for taking the acclaimed Berkeley choral group\u2014originally called Pacific Mozart Ensemble\u2014beyond its 40th anniversary and into an exciting and creative future. 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