Robert Parkins Visits Methuen Memorial Music Hall

The Willoughby Frederick and Emma Jacobson Watts Memorial Organ Concert welcomes Robert Parkins, University Organist and Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University.  Dr. Parkins has studied organ with Gerre Hancock, Charles Krigbaum, and Michael Schneider, as well as harpsichord with Ralph Kirkpatrick.  As a Fulbright scholar, he pursued further organ study with Anton Heiller.

He has numerous organ and harpsichord recordings on the Calcante, Gothic, Loft, Musical Heritage Society, and Naxos labels.  Still available are several solo CDs featureing the Flentrop, Aeolian, and Brombaugh organs in Duke Chapel.  His most recent album, Salome’s Dance (recorded on Duke Chapel’s Aeolian organ for Loft) includes music by later German Romantic and American composers.