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Kemp, Walter
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1938-
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Walter Kemp is a musicologist, organist, choir director and composer who taught at Dalhousie University from 1977-2004 and was appointed to the joint faculty at the University of King's College in 1985. Born in Montreal on 16 November 1938, he earned his ARCT (1955); FRCCO (1959); B Mus (Toronto, 1959); M Mus (Toronto, 1961); MA (Harvard, 1963); and PhD (Oxford, 1972). He became director of the Dalhousie Chorale in 1977 and the Dalhousie Chamber Choir in 1988, and served as music director of St Paul's Anglican church from 1977-1990, the St Paul's Singers from 1978-1990, and the Nova Scotia International Tattoo Choir in 1983. In 1991 he was appointed musical director of the Nova Scotia Gilbert & Sullivan Society and founded the Aquinas Choir of King's College Chapel, Halifax.
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Dalhousie University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Department of Music (1968-2014)
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Dates of relationship
1977-2004
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Walter Kemp taught in the Department of Music from 1977-2004 and served as chair from 1977-1982 and again from 1988-2000.