Tammie Walker

Dr. Tammie Walker, Associate Professor of Piano at Western Illinois University, received the B.M. degree in Piano Performance, summa cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, where she studied with Penelope Cecchini, and the M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Piano Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied with Ian Hobson and was a winner of the University of Illinois Concerto Competition. An active solo and collaborative pianist, Dr. Walker has concertized throughout the continental U.S., Hawaii, England, Scotland and Germany. Her recent collaboration with Dr. Bruce Briney (CD entitled Time Passages) has been reviewed favorably and is available through several distributors, including Amazon.com.  Walker’s Spring 2007 recital schedule includes solo performances at Mercer University (Macon, GA), Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN), and Kutztown University (Kutztown, PA).
Walker is an active clinician, having presented recently at Illinois State University (Bloomington-Normal), the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), and Roosevelt University (Chicago). She has also accepted invitations to give workshops to piano teachers in Naperville, Springfield, Quincy, Galesburg, and Peoria. Walker is an active adjudicator, recently serving on a final-round jury for the World Piano Pedagogy Conference Piano Competition in Atlanta, Georgia.  In addition to piano, Walker served as concertmaster of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Symphony Orchestra for two years, performed with the University of Illinois Summer Festival Orchestra for two years, and won the principal 2nd violin seat in the International Youth Orchestra in Aberdeen, Scotland at age 17. Her most influential violin teachers include Jae Kim and Nobuyoshi Yasuda.
Walker holds memberships in various academic and honorary societies including Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, the College Music Society and Music Teachers National Association. She is currently Coordinator of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Collegiate and Steinway Competitions for the state of Illinois. She has also served as a contributing editor and reviewer for textbooks published by McGraw Hill and Oxford University Press. Her biography is included in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders.  An interview with Dr. Walker was published in the January, 2006 issue of The Piano journal in Korea, and she was recently featured in a March 2007 article in International Piano magazine. 

Tammie Walker resides in Macomb, IL with her husband Chad (a band instrument repair technician), and their four children (Sophia, Bennett, Lucy and Grace).  Teaching responsibilities at WIU have included: applied piano, keyboard literature, piano pedagogy, keyboard skills, class piano, accompanying/chamber music, music theory and graduate music history. Dr. Walker has been on the piano faculty at WIU since 1998 and is coordinator of the keyboard area.

Office Location: 219 Browne Hall
Office Phone: 309/298-1237
Email: TL-Walker4@wiu.edu