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Clif Walker (Kansas City, Missouri) is an arranger, clinician and composer with original works performed at PASIC, TMEA DCI, BOA and The Midwest Band Orchestra Clinic, He was a percussion staff member (2018-2024) and 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 Best Percussion Performance. He is adjunct faculty at the University of Missouri where he teaches in the percussion studio as well as director of the Marching Mizzou Drumline and is front ensemble arranger with the Carolina Crown Drum & Bugle Corps.
Clif is a faculty member for the Music For All Summer Symposium and is a member of the BOA and WGI Adjudication Roster. He served as the director of percussion, design team member and arranger for BOA Grand National Finalist Blue Springs High School (2011-2015), and director of percussion at Timber Creek High School in Orlando, Florida (2001-2008), who performed at the Percussive Arts Society International (PASIC) as the high school International Percussion Ensemble Competition winners in 2005. He is Program Coordinator of BOA Grand National Finalist Fishers High School and front ensemble arranger for Carmel High School.
Clif holds an MME from the University of Central Florida and is published with Musicon Publications, Tapspace and is proud to endorse Yamaha Musical Instruments, Evans Drumheads, Zildjian Cymbals and Innovative Percussion Sticks and Mallets.