Robert Parkins, Professor of the Practice of Music (organ) and University Organist

Robert Parkins

Title:	Professor of the Practice of Music (organ) and University Organist
Office Location:	66 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 3315
Email Address:	rparkins@duke.edu
Web Page:	http://www.chapel.duke.edu/chapel/staff/viewprofile.aspx?id=19

Who's Who in Fine Arts Higher Education, 2003
Dictionary of International Biography (27th ed.), 1999
Outstanding People of the 20th Century, 1999
Men of Achievement (16th ed.), 1998
Distinguished Church Musicians in the United States, 1997
International Who’s Who in Music (17th ed.), 1995
Who’s Who in America (47th ed.), 1995
Who’s Who in American Education (4th ed.), 1994
Who’s Who in Entertainment (3rd ed.), 1993
American Keyboard Artists (1989 ed.), 1989
Julia R. Sherman Memorial Prize, Yale University, 1975
Harry B. Jepson Memorial Scholarship, Yale University, 1972
Associate of the American Guild of Organists (AAGO), American Guild of Organists, 1970
Delta Phi Alpha, 1970
Corinne Moore Lawson Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1969
Pi Kappa Lambda, 1969
Edgar Stillman-Kelley Award, University of Cincinnati, 1968
Phi Eta Sigma, 1968
William H. Albers Memorial Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1968

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Articles

R. Parkins. "Spain and Portugal." Keyboard Music Before 1700 second edition (2003). revised and updated
R. Parkins. "Rediscovering the German Romantic Organ." The Diapason (Jan, Feb, Mar 1989): 14-17, 14-15, 12-13.
R. Parkins. "Cabezón to Cabanilles: Ornamentation in Spanish Keyboard Music." The Organ Yearbook XI (1980): 5-16.
R. Parkins. "Keyboard Fingering in Early Spanish Sources." Early Music XI.3 (July, 1983): 323-31.
R. Parkins and R. Larry Todd. "Mendelssohn’s Fugue in F Minor: A Discarded Movement of the First Organ Sonata." The Organ Yearbook XIV (1983): 61-77.
R. Parkins. "Mendelssohn and the Erard Piano." The Piano Quarterly .125 (Spring, 1984): 53-58.
R. Parkins. "Spain and Portugal." Keyboard Music Before 1700 (1995).

Recordings

R. Parkins. Organ Music of Frescobaldi. Calcante CD038, 2003 .
R. Parkins. Iberian and South German Organ Music. Calcante CD036, 2001 .
R. Parkins. German Romantic Organ Music. Gothic G49096, 1998 .
R. Parkins. Brahms: Complete Organ Works. Naxos 8.550824, 1994 .
R. Parkins. Early Iberian Organ Music. Naxos 8.550705, 1993 .
R. Parkins. Early Spanish Keyboard Music. Musical Heritage Society MHS 4724L, 1983 . (LP: harpsichord)
R. Parkins. Mendelssohn, Brahms and 17th-Century Spain. Gothic 68109, 1982 . (LP: organ)
R. Parkins. Vierne: Messe solennelle (for choir and two organs). Arsis CD133, 2003 .
R. Parkins. 'Entrada' (Anon.) on 'An Introduction to Early Music'. Naxos 8.551203, n.d. .

Solo Performances:

Recital, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC, October 26, 2007
Recital, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, SC (Piccolo Spoleto), May 28, 2007
Recital, Furman University, January 09, 2007
Recital, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 2006
Recital, Duke University, May 22, 2006
(Hadron Collider Physics Symposium)
Recital, Tallahassee, FL, April 23, 2006
(FSU/Bach Parley/AGO)
Recital, Pomona College, February 05, 2006
Recital, Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, UT, 2005/11/06
Recital, Yale University, September 18, 2005
Recital, Peachtree Christian Church, Atlanta, GA (ADM), July 25, 2005
Faculty Recital ("Toccatas"), Duke University, April 3, 2005
Recital, Duke Chapel (SEHKS Conference), 2004
Recital, Peachtree Christian Church, Atlanta, GA (ADM), 2004

Master Classes:

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Residencies:

Eccles Festival Organist-in-Residence, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2-7, 2005
Organ Clinician, ADM (Association of Disciple Musicians), Atlanta, GA, July 24-29, 2005