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jon kimura parker, piano

Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker’s extraordinary career has taken him from Carnegie Hall and London’s Royal Festival Hall to Baffin Island and Zimbabwe. A true Canadian ambassador of music, Mr. Parker has given two command performances for Queen Elizabeth II, special performances for the United States Supreme Court, and has performed for the Prime Ministers of Canada and Japan. He is an officer of the order of Canada, his country's highest civilian honor.

In recent seasons, Jon Kimura Parker has performed as guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the NHK Tokyo Orchestra, and with major orchestra in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montreal, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Toronto. This season Mr. Parker performs as concerto soloist with fifteen symphony orchestras in North America with conductors including Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, David Robertson, Michael Stern, and Pinchas Zukerman, He also returns to Vail with the Philadelphia Orchestra next summer.