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Walter Platt

Adjunct Faculty Member

College
Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Department
Music
Phone
978-934-3850
Fax
978-934-3034
Office
Durgin Hall 316

Expertise

Harmony-Arranging-Composition-Improvisation-Brass

Research Interests

Arranging, Composition, Improvisation, Brass Pedagogy

Education

  • Berklee College of Music BA (Composition)

Biosketch

Performed and, or, recorded with Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, The B-52's. Many of the Motown acts including The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, , Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight. Numerous other Pop stars including Frankie Valli, New Edition (Bobby Brown), New Kids on the Block, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Numerous Jazz artists including The Woody Herman Orchestra, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, The Artie Shaw Orchestra, Mike Stern, Dave Weckl, John Medeski etc. Many arrangements- compositions for companies including Warner Bros., Columbia, Concord, Fox, PBS, Telarc, Audioquest,etc. Over 80 European and Asian tours including performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Vienne Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Kyoto Jazz Festival, The Musikverein and the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna along with performances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wolftrap, The Newport Jazz Festival, The Montreal Jazz Festival, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival etc.