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Timothy
Walker AM is CEO of World Orchestras, an organisation established
in 1999 to present an annual International Orchestras Season
at the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Concert Hall and Brisbane
Concert Hall.
The first World Orchestras subscription season featured the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons, the BBC
Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis and The Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra under Zubin Mehta and was held at the Sydney Opera
House and the Melbourne Concert Hall. The second season includes
Brisbane and there are plans to include Perth from 2004. World
Orchestras seasons are planned up to 2007; the 2003 season
will include the Moscow Radio Symphony under Vladimir Fedoseyev,
Leipzig Gewandhaus with Herbert Blomstedt and the Philharmonia,
conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Timothy Walker was General Manager of the Australian Chamber
Orchestra (ACO) between 1989 and 1999. He has recently completed
a six year term on the Board of the International Society
for the Performing Arts (ISPA) where he served as Secretary,
Treasurer, member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the
Development Committee and Chair of the Organising Committee
of the 15th International Congress of ISPA held at the Sydney
Opera House in 2001.
He is currently a member of the Australian International Cultural
Council, a director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and
serves on the External Advisory Board of the Sydney Conservatorium
of Music. He has been a Deputy Chair of the Music Council
of Australia for six years and was formerly on the Board of
the Orchestral Network of Australia. Walker was on the judging
panel of the inaugural Australian Business Arts Foundation
Awards and is a judge of the Freedman Fellowships.
He is a co-recipient with the ACO of the Sidney Myer Performing
Arts Award, a recipient of the Nugget Award of the Australian
Institute of Arts Management in 2000 and was made a member
of the Order of Australia in the same year for services to
arts administration in Australia, particularly in his role
as General Manager of the ACO.
Timothy Walker has an honours degree in Arts, a Diploma of
Music and a Diploma of Education from the University of Tasmania
and a diploma in Financial Management from the University
of New England.
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