Clif Walker

Clif Walker is is an active arranger, clinician and composer with original works performed at PASIC, The Midwest Band Orchestra Clinic, TMEA, DCI, BOA, WGI and the Sydney Opera House. He is, the director of the University of Missouri Marching Mizzou Drumline and adjunct percussion faculty at Missouri Western State College.

Clif holds a BSE from Missouri Western State University and an MME from the University of Central Florida and is a former member and instructor with the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.

Clif was the director of percussion, design team member and arranger for BOA Grand National Finalist Blue Springs High School (2011-2015), former design team member and front ensemble arranger for 11-time WGI PIW Championship Finalist Gateway Indoor. He is the former caption head/arranger for Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps (1999-2003) and former director of percussion at Timber Creek High School in Orlando, Florida (2001-2008), who performed at the 2005 Percussive Arts Society International as the high school IPEC winners. Clif was the founding director and arranger for WGI PIW Finalist Timber Creek Independent (2008-2010).

Clif adjudicates regularly and is a member of the WGI percussion adjudication roster and the judging coordinator for both the Indiana Percussion Association (IPA) and the Central States Percussion Association (CSPA). As a clinician, Clif has worked recently with Tarpon Springs (FL), Vandegrift (TX), Ronald Reagan (TX), Marcus (TX), and Fishers (IN) and was a percussion faculty member for the 2019 Music For All Summer Symposium.

Clif is published with Musicon and Tapspace and is proud to endorse Yamaha Musical Instruments, Evans Drumheads, Zildjian Cymbals, Beetle Percussion and Innovative Percussion Sticks and Mallets.