Robert Parkins

Office Hours:

Friday 4-6 PM

Education

• DMA Yale University, 1980
• MMA Yale University, 1975
• Fulbright Scholar Hochschule für Musik, Vienna, 1974
• MM Yale University, 1973
• BM University of Cincinnati, 1970

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• 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

Teaching (Fall 2013):

• Music 261.002, Theor/prac tonal mus i Synopsis

  Biddle 101, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• Music 261.02l, Theor/prac tonal mus i Synopsis

  Biddle 101, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Selected Professional Work:

    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).

• 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:

• Harpsichord Recital: "Cabanilles and the Art of Variation" (see under Conferences below), March 23, 2012
  
• Annual Commencement Organ Demonstration Recital (with David Arcus), Duke Chapel, May 12, 2012
  
• Faculty Organ Recital ("Fantasies and Fugues"), Duke Chapel, March 18, 2012
  
• Organ Recital, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Durham, NC (with Kathryn Parkins et al.), April 28, 2012
  
• Annual Commencement Organ Demonstration Recital (with David Arcus), Duke Chapel, May 14, 2011
  
• Organ Recital, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Denver, CO, October 2, 2011
  
• Organ/Harpsichord Recital, University Park United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX, March 14, 2011
  
• Organ/Harpsichord Recital ("French Keyboard Music of Four Centuries"), Duke Chapel, March 20, 2011
  
• Annual Commencement Organ Demonstration Recital (with David Arcus), Duke Chapel, May 15, 2010
  
• Recital, University of Texas at Austin ("The Great Organ Series"), September 12, 2010
  
• Recital ("Works by Johann Sebastian Bach," including a recently discovered and authenticated chorale fantasy), Duke Chapel, March 21, 2010
  
• Recital for the National Bureau of Economic Research-National Science Foundation Time Series International Conference, Duke Chapel, October 8, 2010
  
• Recital, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Greenville, NC (sponsored by East Carolina University), January 22, 2010
  
• Recital, Old Salem Visitor Center, Winston-Salem, NC, July 8, 2009
  Recently restored organ by Tannenberg (built in 1800).
• Recital, Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque, NM, October 25, 2009
  
• Recital, Brevard College (Porter Center for the Performing Arts), February 22, 2009
  

• Director: Organ Recital Series, Duke University Chapel, 1990-present
  The 2012-13 recital series continues the "subseries" featuring Duke alumni. This season's alumni artist was Parker Kitterman (Trinity '01).