Dennis Parker

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Dennis Parker

Dennis Parker was born in New York City and began his cello studies at the age of six. He received his early training with Channing Robbins of the Juilliard School, and later earned degrees from Indiana University and Yale University, where he worked with Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot, respectively. Parker appears frequently as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, and guest professor at numerous universities and festivals. Since 1988, Parker has served as Professor of Cello and String Chamber Music at the Louisiana State University School of Music. A former member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Parker has also served as Principal Cellist of the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has recorded for DVD the first complete performance of David Popper's "High School of Cello Playing" and is the author of the accompanying manual, "Popper Manifesto". He has also released CD's with the Centaur label: Cello Matters features crossover music for cello and piano by Liduino Pitombeira, Daniel Schnyder, David Baker, and Astor Piazzolla; Uplifting Discoveries from a Generation Lost is a recording of chamber music by composers who perished in the Holocaust (Erwin Schulhoff, Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann and Hans Krasa). Volume 1 of Stolen Sonatas with pianist, Jennifer Hayghe , a recording that includes his own transcriptions of Debussy’s Sonata for Violin, Poulenc’s Sonata for Flute, and Enesco’s Sonata No.3 for Violin. Recent concert tours have taken him from Brasilia, Brazil, where he premiered the Cello Concerto by Walter Burle-Marx, to Nanjing, China, where he was soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, The President’s Chamber Orchestra in Prague, and performances at the International Music Festival in Campos do Jordao, Brazil, and Instrumenta Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico. As an avid woodworker, Parker creates objects that extend his musical expression and complement the delicate act of performance with the risky business of maneuvering wood through various cutting and shaping devices. His work has been displayed in a variety of venues including the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. You can view his work at www.dennisparkerland.com.

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