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Clif Walker (Kansas City, MO) is an arranger/composer, with original works performed at PASIC, TMEA, DCI, BOA, and The Midwest Clinic. He was a percussion staff member (2018-2024), design team member, (2019-2024), and front ensemble arranger (2020-2024) with The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, recipients of the 2023 DCI Fred Sanford Award for High Percussion. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri, where he teaches in the percussion studio and directs the Marching Mizzou Drumline. Walker is the percussion designer and front ensemble arranger with the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps.
Walker is a faculty member for the Bands of America Summer Camp and is a member of the BOA and WGI adjudication rosters. He served from 2011 to 2015 as the Director of Percussion and arranger for BOA Grand National Finalist Blue Springs High School, and from 2001 to 2008 at Timber Creek High School in Orlando, Florida, whose percussion ensemble performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention as the high school International Percussion Ensemble Competition winners in 2005. He is currently the front ensemble arranger for BOA Grand National Finalist Carmel High School and was recently selected as drumline coordinator/arranger for the BOA Honor Band in the 2026 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Walker holds a Master of Music Education from the University of Central Florida and is published with Musicon and Tapspace. Walker is proud to endorse Yamaha Musical Instruments.