Full CV
Education
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
exp. 2025 — Dr. rer. medic.
- Doctoral Thesis: Temporal development of voice parameters during vocal training – a longitudinal study
- Doctoral supervisor: Dr. Dirk Mürbe
Indiana University
2017 — Doctor of Music in Vocal Performance
- Minor in Music Education
- Dissertation: Devising Methods for Conservatory Performers
- Research director: Dr. Katherine Strand
2014 — Master of Music in Vocal Performance
- Outside area in Speech Science
Western Washington University
2012 — Bachelor of Science in Physics
2012 — Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance
Academic Positions
Carl Maria von Weber Conservatory
- 2022-Present — Research Associate – Studio for Voice Research
- Dresden, Germany
Friedrich Alexander Universität
- 2021-2022 — Lecturer – Voice
- Erlangen, Germany
Ivy Tech Community College
- 2015-2016 — Adjunct Professor – Music Theory, Music Appreciation
- Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
- 2014-2016 — Associate Instructor – Vocal Pedagogy, Private Voice
- Bloomington, Indiana
Research Positions
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 2021-Present — Research Associate
- Berlin, Germany
- Department of Audiology and Phoniatrics
- Dr. Dirk Mürbe
Carl Maria von Weber Conservatory
- 2022-Present — Research Associate – Studio for Voice Research
- Dresden, Germany
- Professor Hartmut Zabel
Indiana University
- 2013-2016 — Research Assistant
- Vocal Physiology and Modeling Lab
- Dr. Rita Patel
- 2016 — Research Assistant
- Vocal Pedagogy Lab
- Dr. Brian Gill
- 2012-2013 — Research Assistant
- Audiology Lab
- Dr. Gary Kidd
Papers and Presentations
- Walker, Reuben. “Stimmphyiologische Parameter sängerischer Emotion – was kann man wie messen”
Dresdner Stimmforum – Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik. 2024 December 30th. Dresden, Germany. - Walker, Reuben, Mario Fleischer, Johan Sundberg, and Dirk Mürbe. “Male and Female Voices
Show Differences in Spectral Development Over Four Years of Conservatory Training.”
Paper presented at: Pan European Vocal Conference. 2024 September 4-7th. Santander, Spain.
- Walker, Reuben, Mario Fleischer, Marie Bieber and Dirk Mürbe. “Development of Vocal
Vibrato Measures During Conservatory Training – A Longitudinal Retrospective Study”
Paper presented at: Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference. 2023 June 14-16th. Stockholm, Sweden.
- Mario Fleischer, Reuben S. Walker and Dirk Mürbe. “Morphometric Details of the Vocal Tract –
How do they determine the transfer function?” Paper presented at: Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Pädaulogie und Phoniatrie Conference. 2023 28th Sept.- 1st Oct. Cologne,
Germany.
- Fleischer, Mario, Lukas Chumann, Anne Hartmann, Reuben Scott Walker, Liliana Ifrim,
Dorothea von Zadow, Jonas Lüske, Joachim Seybold, Martin Kriegel, and Dirk Mürbe.
“Pre-adolescent children exhibit lower volume emissions than adults for breathing,
speaking, singing and shouting.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2021).
- Patel, Rita R, Reuben Walker, and Michael Doellinger. “Oscillatory onset and offset in young
vocally healthy adults across various measurement methods.” Journal of Voice (2017).
- Patel, Rita R., Reuben Walker, and Preeti M. Sivasankar. “Spatiotemporal Quantification of
Vocal Fold Vibration after Exposure to Superficial Laryngeal Dehydration: A
Preliminary Study.” Journal of Voice (2015).
- Patel, Rita R and Reuben Walker. Comparison of Voice Onset and Offset Methods Using High-
Speed Videoendoscopy. Paper presented at: The Voice Foundation’s 44th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. 2015 May 26-31st. Philadelphia, PA.
- Patel, Rita R, Reuben Walker, and Preeti M. Sivasankar. Does Vibratory Motion Change
Following Exposure to Low Humidity Challenge? A Multidimensional Voice
Measurements Study. Poster Session presented at: The Voice Foundation’s 44th Annual
Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. 2015 May 26-31st. Philadelphia, PA.
- Walker, Reuben. Childhood and Adolescent Singing: An Overview of Physiological and
Cognitive Development. New Voice Educators Symposium. Indiana University, 2015.
Research Interests
- Vocal Development – Longitudinal Studies
- Statistical Prognosis
- Signal and Image Processing
- Data Engineering
Stage Experience
| Role | Opera | Location | Year |
| Kilian | Der Freischütz | Landesbühnen Sachsen | 2023 |
| Morel | Der Graf von Monte Cristo | Mittelsächsisches Theater | 2022 |
| Tiburtius | Die heilige Cäcilia, Urspruch | Heinrichshütte, Hattingen | 2021 |
| Ruprecht | Der Friedensengel, S. Wagner | Reichshof Kulturbühne Bayreuth | 2021 |
| Ritter | Gottfried Sonnenflammen, S. Wagner | Reichshof Kulturbühne Bayreuth | 2020 |
| Almachius | Die heilige Cäcilia, Urspruch | Santa Cecilia Rome | 2020 |
| Teufel (cover) | An Allem ist Hütchen.., S. Wagner | Markgr. Opernhaus Bayreuth | 2019 |
| Donner | Das Rheingold, Wagner | Dramatic Voices Program Berlin | 2019 |
| Tancredi | Il combattimento, Monteverdi | Sanssouci Potsdam | 2019 |
| Guglielmo | Così fan tutte, Mozart | Varna International Bulgaria | 2019 |
| Onegin Jewgeni | Onegin, Tchaikowski | Ludwigstheater Aschaffenburg | 2018 |
| Jedermann | Jedermann, Böhmer | Oper Oder-Spree | 2018 |
| Schaunard | La bohème, Puccini | Festival of the Arts Boca Raton | 2017 |
| Riolobo | Florencia en el Amazonas, Catán | IU Opera Theater | 2016 |
| Cardinal Sinceri | Galileo Galilei, Glass | Des Moines Metro Opera | 2016 |
| Papageno | Die Zauberflöte, Mozart | Festival of the Arts Boca Raton | 2016 |
| Joseph De Rocher | Dead Man Walking, Heggie | IU Opera Theater | 2015 |
| Prometheus | The Firebringers, Kingsland | Roundabout Opera for Kids | 2015 |
| Mr. Scattergood | The Last Savage, Menotti | IU Opera Theater | 2014 |
| Richard Henry Lee | 1776, Edwards | Cardinal Stage | 2014 |
| Pimpinone | Pimpinone, Telemann | IU Summer Music Festival | 2014 |
| Captain Corcoran | HMS Pinafore, G&S | IU Opera Theater | 2014 |
| El Duende/Payador | Maria de Buenos Aires, Piazzolla | Roundabout Opera for Kids | 2014 |
| Le Bailli | Werther, Massenet | IU Opera Theater | 2013 |
| Richard Nixon | Intoxication, Kingsland | New Voices Opera | 2013 |
| Pandolfe | Cendrillon, Massenet | IU Opera Theater | 2012 |
Concert Experience
| Missa sanctissimae trinitatis, Zelenka | Nikolaikirche, Freiberg | 2022 |
| Requiem, Fauré | Kantorei Alt-Tegel, Berlin | 2021 |
| Ehr und Dank sei dir gesungen, Telemann | Kantorei Alt-Tegel, Berlin | 2021 |
| Ein deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms | Bloomington Chamber Singers | 2015 |
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