The website and blog of musician and writer Walter Bitner.The website and blog of musician and writer Walter Bitner.
Off The Podium features Walter’s writing on music and education. For Walter’s writing beyond these topics, visit Jisetsu.com.
A multi-instrumentalist and singer, Walter is also a teacher, composer/arranger, and conductor conversant with a wide variety of musical styles and traditions. He has performed or collaborated with a diverse array of musicians in a teaching and performing career that spans four decades. Walter’s teaching career included elementary school, middle school, and high school vocal and instrumental music formats for a wide variety of schools over more than twenty years, and he subsequently spent ten years as a symphony administrator producing education and community engagement programs.
Walter’s column Off The Podium was featured in Choral Director magazine 2016-2021, and his writing has been published widely by music and education associations and publications including the National Association for Music Education, American Choral Directors Association, Teaching With Orff, School Band & Orchestra magazine, and the Lute Society of America. He has also been a featured speaker about music education and diversity, equity, and inclusion at regional and national conferences.
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