Donna Parker
© 2001 L&JN
Donna Parker is an internationally recognized Concert Organist, with many recordings of her performances. She also plays live performances, maintains an active concert schedule and has made recordings with Jonas Nordwall and Tom Hazelton as Trio Con Brio.
Having played and studied organs from the age of seven, Donna began her classical instruction at age thirteen with Richard Purvis, then Organist and Choirmaster of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. She made her first recording at fifteen, was appointed the first Official Organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball organization and performed concerts for a major electronic organ manufacturer. She was the featured organist at the Paramount Music Palace in Indianapolis, Indiana for several years and was Staff Organist at Uncle Milt's Pipe Organ Pizza in Vancouver, Washington until it closed on September 30, 1999.
At the present time she provides professional keyboard teaching services in the Portland, Oregon area, is a Consultant to the Allen Organ Company developing music education programs, and is Organist at the First Baptist Church in downtown Portland and the Associate Staff Organist at First United Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon.
She is a member of the American Theatre Organ Society Board of Directors, Oregon Chapter ATOS, Columbia River Organ Club and other organ related organizations.
You may find a biography on the Donna Parker page of the PSTOS website.
This bio was prepared with the help of Robert Rusczyk and Donna Parker.
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