Parker Konkle
- Adjunct Lecturer, Collaborative Piano
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Collaborative Piano
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Vocal Coaching
114 Music Building 1
- Email pfk5076@psu.edu
- Pronouns He/Him
Biography
Parker Konkle is a pianist and vocal coach based in central Pennsylvania. Past engagements have included Studio Artist at the Music Academy Lehrer Vocal Institute; répétiteur with the Holy City Arts and Lyric Opera (HALO) in Charleston, South Carolina; répétiteur/assistant coach for CCM’s Opera d’Arte; répétiteur/assistant music director with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival; Festival Artist Pianist/Coach for Opera Saratoga’s 2024 Summer Season; and staff pianist for the George Shirley Vocal Competition at the University of Michigan. Additionally, Parker has been seen in workshops and performances with the Cincinnati Song Initiative’s (CSI), including the 2024 Let It Be New digital concert which featured new works commissioned by CSI and National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) as a part of the NATS Mentoring Program for Composers. He has been involved in several performances featured in CSI’s Follow the Lieder podcast hosted by Mandee Madrid-Sikich and participated in the Amply Song Workshop, a collaboration between the CSI and the Lynx Project. He has also participated in masterclasses with Myra Huang, Pierre Valet, Sasha Cooke, and others.
Equally at home in the choral repertoire, Parker has served as staff accompanist at the Cincinnati Youth Choir, the University of Cincinnati Cabaret Singers, and several other collegiate choral ensembles. He is a prize winner in the Steinway and Sons Junior Piano Competition, the Pennsylvania State MTNA Competition, has received the Golumbic Award given by the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, and is a Presser Scholar.
Parker holds degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he held a graduate assistantship in vocal accompanying and was the recipient of the Gillespie Schonbach Endowed Scholarship in Collaborative Piano. His teachers and mentors include Christopher Guzman, Kenneth Griffiths, Donna Loewy, Sandra Rivers, and Marie-France Lefebvre.