With a repertoire ranging from Early Music, to interdisciplinary collaborations, to works composed especially for her, performer, academic and music educator Dr Sally Walker has toured internationally with the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras, was Principal Flute of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, a member of Kölner Kammerorchester, and has a long-standing association as Guest Principal Flautist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra with who she has played modern flute and piccolo, classical flute, baroque flute, and recorder. She has performed with other Early Music Ensembles including Neues Bachiches Collegium Leipzig, Das Neue Orchester Köln, Salut! Baroque, Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Canberra Bach Ensemble, and extensively with harpsichordist Dr Rosalind Halton.

She was prize-winner numerous competitions, including the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute competition, and nominated for an APRA-AMCOS Award for both for Arts Excellence and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual. She was Runner-up in both the 2024 and 2025 Limelight 2024 Artist of the Year Award.

Sally is guest teacher at the Australian National Academy of Music and has been Senior Lecturer in Performance at the Australian National University, and Flute Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (where she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in teaching). Sally’s students learn baroque flute alongside modern flute and piccolo from a method derived from findings from her doctoral thesis (University of Sydney), which explored pedagogical and neurophysiological implications in switching between modern and historical Flutes, studying baroque flute with Hans-Dieter Michatz and Karl Kaiser.

She contributes to many socially driven projects including 1:1 CONCERTS, the Equal Music program (Illumina Festival), and is the Ambassador for the Symphony for Life Foundation.

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