Michael Patrick Walker

Michael Patrick Walker

Michael Patrick Walker is a composer/lyricist and musician as well as an arranger and orchestrator. He is best known for co-writing the musical, Altar Boyz with fellow composer/lyricist Gary Adler and book writer Kevin Del Aguila. For his work on Altar Boyz Michael was nominated for a 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and for two 2005 Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and for Best Lyrics. The show also won the 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off Broadway Musical.

Michael is also the music director and supervisor for Season 2 of the Disney Channel TV Series Johnny and the Sprites. In this capacity, Michael served as the lead composer, oversaw a team of noted theatre composers who wrote the original songs for each episode and developed the stories for each of 26 scripts for the series. He also arranged, orchestrated and produced the recordings of the songs and also co-produced the CD for the series. Previous to his involvement as music director and supervisor, Michael had been composing for the show since its inception in 2005. Season 2 of Johnny and the Sprites received 4 Daytime Emmy Nominations including one for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series.

Michael contributed a song to the web series The Battery's Down as well as several songs to various editions of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' annual holiday CD, Carols for a Cure. He is currently developing several new projects, including a new musical entitled The Distant Bells which was a finalist for the 2009 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's musical theatre conference.

As a musician and/or conductor, Michael's Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Avenue Q (Conductor), The Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Music Director/Arranger), Wicked, The Lion King, Thoroughly Modern Millie, tick, tick...BOOM! (Conductor) and others.

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