He is the recipient of the 2014 Encore Award for Alumni Excellence from the Belmont University School of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music in voice and piano and was the Theodore Presser Scholar in Music in 1986. He won the Joseph Jefferson Award for best ensemble in 1995 for Forever Plaid in Chicago. In 1998, he was nominated for a Jefferson Award as best actor in an ensemble for The Irish and How They Got That Way at the Mercury Theatre in Chicago, a performance about which the Chicago Sun-Times said, “And when Greg Walter—the superb music director who sits at the piano like a wizened and somewhat suspect leprechaun throughout the show—launches into a ravishing version of Wild Irish Rose, romanticism lives.” He was the recipient of a UNCSA Teaching Excellence Award for 2015-16.