Delahunt-Haley Walter

Pianist Walter Delahunt, originally from Wolfville, is an artist of broad and distinguished experience.
His career has taken him throughout Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia. His musicianship is characterised by tremendous technical command of the instrument, unique sound quality, ease in chamber music, solo playing and accompanying and by a power of communication which immediately involves the listener. He has played with some of the world’s greatest musicians, including Zara Nelsova, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich and the legendary violinist Ida Haendel, of whom he is the regular recital partner and with whom he has played several times in Japan, Korea, Israel, Canada and the United States. He was professor at the Vienna Music Academy between198 and 1997 and has recorded for Panton (Prague) and BMG Japan. He also is a regular faculty member of the Keshet Eilon Master Course in Israel.
A live recording of Dvorak chamber music, performed at the “Progetto Martha Argerich” in Lugano in June 2002 has been released on EMI Classics and was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2006.