Educator
Dr. Andrew Parker strives to teach students of all ages, experience levels, and backgrounds how to fall in love with the process so they can reveal the artist within.
Traditional post-concert photo at the wonderful 2019 Round Top Festival Institute in Round Top, TX. Working with the oboe students at Round Top is always so bittersweet as you develop such camaraderie with them and then have to say goodbye all too quickly.
Here is my wonderful friend and fellow oboe professor, Celeste Johnson Frehner (UMKC) performing at The University of Texas at Austin before she gave an inspiring master class to my oboe students here at Butler School of Music. Can’t wait to do it again sometime!
Dr. Andrew Parker is currently Associate Professor of Oboe at the Butler School of Music. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Oboe at the University of Iowa. Andrew has provided master classes throughout the country and beyond at such institutions as the Royal College of Music in London, University of Michigan, Temple University, Rice University, the University of Florida, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Luther College, Mannes Preparatory Division, and the University of Virginia to name a few.
He has been the guest artist at several double-reed events around the country and has performed at numerous International Double Reed Society conventions. He also served as an adjudicator for the National Youth Orchestra, hosted by Carnegie Hall and the Gillet-Fox International Oboe Competition.
Making Reeds with Dr. Andrew Parker and the UT Austin Oboe Studio
In addition to his collegiate teaching and performing experience, Andrew has also taught and coached chamber music at various international music festivals, including the Round Top Music Festival, Music in the Mountains, Oboe Fest in San Juan, FEMUSC festival in Brazil, the Hartwick Festival in New York, and the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont.
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Huge thanks to the Royal College of Music in London and Olivier Stankiewicz for inviting me from across the pond to give a performance and master class for their wonderful oboe studio. The students were so welcoming and all played wonderfully. I’m looking forward to more collaborations with oboists from all over the world!