Brian Walsh is a musician who is interested in sound and communication, regardless of the genre. Mr. Walsh specializes in performance on the clarinet and bass clarinet, and is fluent in many styles of music. He is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, BFA), and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. He has studied clarinet with William Powell, Gary Bovyer, Deborah Kanter, and Val Grayson, and improvisation with Bobby Bradford, Vinny Golia, and Ben Goldberg.

Mr. Walsh frequently performs with such diverse groups as Inauthentica, The New Century Players, The Industrial Jazz Group, The Doug McDonald Brass and Woodwind Coalition, and the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. Performances have taken him to Japan, Canada, England, the Netherlands, and all over the United States. Past collaborators have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Money Mark, Bright Eyes, James Newton, Larry Koonse, Muhal Richard Abrams, the Henry Mancini Orchestra, and the Riverside Philharmonic.

Mr. Walsh is also an active private teacher and clinician. He is an instructor at Baxter-Northup Music Co. and the Academy of Creative Education.