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ATU professor places second in international composition contest
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published November 1, 2009 at 3:33 a.m.
RUSSELLVILLE — Philip
Parker, associate professor of
music at Arkansas Tech Uni
versity, won second prize in the
2009 College Orchestra Direc
tors Association International
Composition Contest at Baylor
University in Waco, Texas.
Parker’s work, titled Joyeuse,
was named by a panel of five judg
es as the second-best entry among
composers at more than 120 Col
lege Orchestra Directors Associa
tion member institutions.
It is Parker’s second major
composition award this year.
Last spring, the National Sym
phony Orchestra selected Parker
to compose a piece that it will
perform at the John F. KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Parker was one of just three composers selected by the National Symphony Orchestra this year as part of its American Residency program.
Parker has served on the Arkansas Tech music faculty since 1977. His past honors include the Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship for outstanding achievement in composition, two awards for composition from the National Flute Association and the Arkansas Tech Faculty Award of Excellence in the scholarship category.
A graduate of Wichita State University and Indiana University, Parker teaches applied percussion, music history, music theory and composition at Arkansas Tech.
River Valley Ozark, Pages 163 on 11/01/2009
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