Fountain School of Performing Arts

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Shimon Walt

Part-Time Academic

Shimon Walt
Fountain School of Performing Arts

Email: shimon.walt@dal.ca
Phone: 902.494.3772
Fax: 902.494.2801
Mailing Address: 
Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University Avenue
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Performance
  • Cello


Education

  • BMus (Tel -Aviv)
  • Boston University

Research & creative activity

Shimon Walt is the Assistant Principal Cellist of Symphony Nova Scotia and one of the founding members of Symphony Nova Scotia. After the demise of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra he was appointed by the Nova Scotia government to a Steering Committee entrusted with rebuilding symphonic life in Nova Scotia. He was Symphony Nova Scotia’s first Personnel Manager, a position he held for six years. He also operates Walt Music.

Teaching

  • Shimon Walt is known as a dedicated teacher, and many of his students have gone on to professional musical careers.
  • He has been a provincial adjudicator for the Kiwanis Music Festivals in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and served on national juries for FACTOR (the Foundation to Assist New Canadian Talent on Record) and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Selected performances

  • Shimon has performed with major orchestras under such noted conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta and Pablo Casals.