Bob Walker, Jr. earned his BM in Music Education at Berklee College of Music and is working on his Master’s Degree in Education Media Design and Technology at Full Sail University. He has also gone through training to teach the AP Music Theory Course through Manhattan College in New York and has attended the Jazz Band Director Academy through the Essentially Ellington program. He has been teaching privately for 22 years and in the public schools for 8. Mr. Walker’s performance experience includes playing in theatre bands, with his most recent performances with Hackmatack Playhouse, Seacoast Rep, and Prescott Park Arts Festival. Currently, he has been working as a freelance guitarist for various live and recording performances including his band Bob Jr and the Martini Gardeners, with whom he has recorded and released a CD and participated in the past two RPM Challenges. Through the RPM Challenge recordings, the band had a song selected to be a part of a compilation CD Sounds of Caring, released in 2008.