The Nancy Heule chair
Anita Walsh joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s First Violins in 2022 and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble in 2025. Her passionate pursuit of great orchestral and chamber music collaborations has led her to engagements across Canada with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and as Principal Second Violinist with the Winnipeg and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestras.
Equally at home as a chamber musician, Anita has enjoyed repeat engagements at the Colorado Music Festival, Scotia Festival of Music, Festival of the Sound, Stratford Summer Music, Festival Vancouver, Jeunesses Musicales Canada, and Ottawa Chamberfest.
Off stage, Anita’s belief in the performing arts as a powerful catalyst for forming healthy and vibrant community identities has driven projects that have infused music with yoga, culinary art, physics, and health concepts. She has delivered programming in places as diverse as Federal Prison, shopping centres, yoga studios, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Addiction Recovery Centre.