Ms. Linda Parr

Lecturer, Piano
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

M.M., Piano Performance, Kent State University
B.M., Piano Performance, Kent State University

Background
LINDA PARR earned the Bachelor of Music (1972) and Master of Music (1979) degrees in piano performance from Kent State University. Additional piano study was at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. Teachers have included Tung Kwong-Kwong, Noel Flores, Frederic Schoettler and Violet Todd.

She is active as a recitalist, chamber music pianist (founding member since 1993 of the Sylvan Chamber Ensemble) and pianist in a duo-piano team with husband, Andrew Parr. Mrs. Parr has performed in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Washington, D. C., and New York City for the Si-Yo Young Artists Series, has appeared with the Harrington String Quartet, and collaborated with many artists in the Chamber Music in the Pines summer festival.

Robert Finn, Cleveland music critic, wrote of her playing "..Parr was again an assertive pianist, making her colleagues work to match her sound and style." The Arlington Daily News reported that, "..Parr, whose solid technique was coupled with a vibrant sound suffused with color, played with authoritative confidence and considerable flair." Recent performances with the Sylvan Chamber Ensemble, which is included on the Texas Commission on the Arts touring roster, have Included all Rachmaninoff and Brahms chamber programs, children's concerts, and performances as soloists in the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Longview Symphony and the Orchestra of the Pines.

Mrs. Parr joined the piano faculty at Stephen F. Austin University in 1986. She has also been a piano instructor since 1983 and past Assoc late, Co-Director and Director of the SFA Music Preparatory Division.

Interests, Activities & Plans
A member of MTNA, Mrs. Parr is presently chapter advisor for the newly established SFA Collegiate Student Chapter of MTNA.

Listen to some audio excerpts of Ms. Parr's performances:

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