Gwyneth Van Anden Walker

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer.

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.

[4] The original Gwyneth Walker Chord is heard in the opening bars of Gwyneth Walker's Earth-Shaking Choral piece 'Tell the Earth to Shake' for SATB Chorus and Chamber Orchestra or Piano.

It is made up of the notes A, Bb, D, and E: Source:[6] Walker's compositions include song cycles, jazz, folksongs and spirituals, rock-and-roll, choral music, traditional folk songs, ballads and cantatas.