Marion Walker
Biography Marion Walker
Marion Walker
a graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Geneva Conservatory of Music, is alternate solo oboist with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, a former member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and has played with all the professional orchestras in Norway as well as orchestras in Sweden, Australia and Switzerland.
In 2008, Walker was the first in Scandinavia to introduce special children's oboes that make it possible for children to play the oboe. For a while, she organised annual teacher training courses for oboists and bassoonists, and since then has started teaching children to play bassoon and oboe at cultural schools in all the country's major cities.
After many years as an observant mother of 3 "suzuki children" and about a hundred suzuki classes, Walker was encouraged to develop Suzuki for oboe. She has taken level 1 Suzuki teacher training with trumpeter Ann-Marie Sundberg and cellist Haukur Hannesson and has developed a possible prototype for the oboe's suzuki book 1. This is in a process that after many rounds of approval and peer review will hopefully give us Suzuki method for oboe.
Marion has been a soloist with the SSO, KSO, KORK and various amateur orchestras, had several works composed for him, participated in recordings, and received a number of grants and awards.
As an instructor and teacher, Walker has worked with young wind players for over 20 years in brass bands, cultural schools, talent groups at the Barratt Dues Music Institute, and summer camps across the country.
