Chris Walton honored in America
Chris Walton's translation of a book on the Chur composer Meinrad Schütter has won an ARSC Award in the USA.
Meinrad Schütter is one of the most fascinating Swiss composers of the 20th century. Four years after Schütter's death, Ute Stoecklin published the book "Meinrad Schütter 1910-2006" in 2010, which deals with the life's work of the composer from Chur.
In 2024, the book was translated into English by Chris Walton under the title "Meinrad Schütter - Maverick Swiss Composer", according to a press release from Bern University of the Arts. It is the first English publication to deal with the life of Meinrad Schütter. The translation won the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Awards 2025 in the category Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music - Best History.
Chris Walton teaches music history at the Basel University of Music, is an honorary professor at the Africa Open Institute (University of Stellenbosch in South Africa) and heads a research project for the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Bern University of the Arts.
