Biography

Donny Walker (Mind Exchange Music LLC) is an international award winning: Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator, Music Producer, Film Director, Music Video Director & more. His scores, soundtracks, music videos & original content has won over 92 awards all over the world. His original documentaries & music videos have played in over 300 film festivals internationally. He regularly produces and performers music content in every style, for all genres, for any and all types of performance & production situations.

His original music and production work has been picked up by Universal Music Group, Stars, Lions Gate, PBS, CBS, NBC, E! Bravo, SyFy! & Telemundo. He's done original music production for Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the Governor of Illinois, 150 media stream, the DuPage Children's Museum & his original music represented music for America in the 2019 worldwide finalists round in iMapp 2019 with creative genius George Berlin. He's a past performer with Aretha Franklin, The Ojays & the Dells & has score and produced mountains of music for feature films of all kinds, short films documentaries, series, concerts, projection mapping, theatre, musical theatre.

Currently, he teaches K-8 music at Queen of All Saints School in Chicago and has also taught for the Digital Music Academy at Northwestern University, Instrument lessons at St Nicholas Cathedral schools for 2 years, has music directed for churches & congregations as well as private entertainment groups and additionally has taught for the City of Evanston, The Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Interlochen Arts Academy & more. He has a masters degree in Brass Pedagogy from Northeastern Illinois University, his Bachelors in Music Performance from Columbia College Chicago & his associates at DePaul University, studying with the Chicago Symphony & Chicago Lyric Opera. He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy.
- IMDb mini biography by: Donny Walker