Nicholas Walker is a Professor of Music at Ithaca College, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Past-President of the International Society of Bassists where he served as the Artistic Director and Convention Host of the 50th Anniversary Convention in 2017. Nicholas has diplomas from Rice University, the Nadia Boulanger Conservatoire de Paris, and Stony Brook University, where he earned his Doctorate in early music in 2004.