Frikki Walker is one of Scotland’s busiest and most experienced Choral Conductors.
He has been Director of Music at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow since 1996, and under his leadership the choir has more than doubled in size, and now includes a Children’s Choir. Frikki has recorded four CDs with the choir, and the choir have now featured on over 50 Radio and TV programmes including, Daily Service and Morning Worship on BBC Radio 4, Sunday Half-hour on Radio 2, and a wide variety of special programmes on BBC Radios 2, 4, Scotland and the World Service. They have also appeared many times on BBC Television’s “Songs of Praise”.
In addition to his duties at St Mary’s, Frikki currently conducts the RSCM Scottish Voices, which he co-founded, and the Changed Voices of the RSNO Youth Chorus. He also conducts the acclaimed Chamber Choir of the High School of Glasgow, who have made several radio and TV appearances, and who won “BBC Songs of Praise Senior School Choir of the Year” in 2013, as well as being finalists in the Barnardo’s National Choral Competition 2019, in the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Frikki has worked, and continues to work, with many of Scotland’s most prestigious choirs, including the RSNO Chorus, the RSNO Youth Chorus, RSNO Chorus Academy, The National Youth Choir of Scotland, Bearsden Choir, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, the Glasgow Chamber Choir and the Chapel Choir of the University of Glasgow as well as various choirs in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, for whom he is a visiting examiner.
A keen Choral animateur, he has also run choral workshops for Festivals and choirs throughout Scotland and is in increasing demand as an adjudicator at Music Festivals.
An accomplished organist, Frikki has given recitals in parish churches, concert halls and Cathedrals all over Britain and beyond, including such venues as the Caird Hall in Dundee, St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, Chester Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. He has also played in Salzburg, Holland, and in major churches in his home country, Iceland.
As a composer, he has written a huge range of choral music and choral arrangements, some of which are published, and several of which have been broadcast on Radio and TV, and sung and played in schools, churches and cathedrals all over the world. His “Camerata Carols” have twice featured in the RSNO Christmas Concerts.
Frikki is married with three children, and in his spare time, likes nothing better than spending time with them and his friends. He is also an avid fan of Science Fiction, especially Star Trek and Dr Who, is a life-long Lego enthusiast, and has an extensive collection of bookmarks.