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Dr. Michael Walsh serves as Professor of Clarinet at �ձ�av��Ƶ and is the Program Coordinator for the BM in Music Entrepreneurship degree. He also teaches music history, music appreciation, which includes an honors section and directs the “Windy Jacks” Clarinet Ensemble.

Walsh holds the distinction as being the first student to earn the DMA in clarinet performance and pedagogy from the University of Kansas under Dr. Larry Maxey. In 2006, he won the Kansas City Philharmonia Concerto Competition which included a performance of Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsody. As principal clarinet of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2008, he premiered David Morgan’s Reflections and Meditations for clarinet and winds, which was released by C.F. Peters Corporation in January 2008.
An accomplished instrumentalist and strong advocate of new music, Walsh has performed as soloist and as a member of the MiamiClarinet Quartet in over a dozen ICA Clarinetfests including the United States, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. The quartet has premiered and commissioned over 15 works for the ensemble that include unique quartet instrumentation of two soprano and two bass clarinets. In 2025, the quartet released their debut album Wild Winds, which is available on Spotify.

His professional involvement has included performing at the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors national conferences. He was elected president in 2014 and has had the pleasure of directing three national conferences for the organization. His major teachers include Kalmen Opperman, Dennis Smylie, Lawrence Sobol, Mark Nuccio, Larry Maxey and Margaret Donaghue-Flavin.

Walsh has given master classes and recitals in various high schools and universities including the University of Miami, University of Memphis, Southeast Missouri State University, North Dakota State University and The Juilliard School. He has been published in music journals for both collegiate and national levels.

Prior to his appointment at �ձ�av��Ƶ, he taught at the University of Tennessee at Martin and has also worked as musicologist assistant for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.