David Parker, Brass
David Parker holds degrees in music from Boston University, the University of Toronto, and Acadia University. Further studies have included residencies at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Tanglewood, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. His influential teachers have included Daniel Katzen, Hermann Baumann, and Eugene Rittich. He has been a member of the Israel Sinfonietta, l’Orquestre Symphonique de Quebec, the City Orchestra of Barcelona, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He has also performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Boston Lyric Opera. He has been a recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. He can be heard regularly as a soloist and chamber musician on C.B.C. radio. He is a founding member of The Music Room Chamber Music Society (Halifax) and performs at the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival and Scotia Festival of Music and as a soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia.
David Parker was a member of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra from 1980 – 1984. Mr. Parker has been Principal Hornist of Symphony Nova Scotia since 2000 and is on the faculty of Dalhousie University.