Anita Walsh

Anita joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s First Violins in 2022 and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble in 2025.

With a career shaped by a deep dedication to expressive collaboration and curiosity, Anita believes that the performing arts serve as a powerful catalyst for shaping healthy and vibrant community identities. Guided by this belief, she has found that her most meaningful musical experiences often take place off stage and in unconventional settings. Her favorite projects so far have infused music with physics, culinary arts, yoga, and health concepts, incorporating social engagement practices to explore intersections of art, health, and leisure. She has delivered programming in settings as diverse as federal prisons, shopping centres, yoga studios, hospices, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Addiction Recovery Centre. In these endeavors, she has collaborated with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Alzheimer’s Society, University of Alberta, Health Arts Society of Alberta, and Autism Ontario.

Since moving to Edmonton with her husband and two exuberant young boys, Anita has become a big fan of the city’s incredible River Valley Trail network, the Edmonton Public Library, and the Edmonton Oilers!