Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Prokofiev-Piano Concerto No 3)

Born in Vancouver in 1959, Kimura Parker appeared with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra at the age of five. After studies with his uncle, Edward Parker, and Lee Kum-Sing at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the University of British Columbia, as well as with Marek Jablonski at the Banff School of the Arts, he was admitted to the Juilliard School on full scholarship as a student of Adele Marcus.

Kimura Parker is regularly invited by the world's leading orchestras and conductors including the Royal Philharmonic/Previn, San Francisco Symphony/Slatkin, National Symphony/Semkov, Toronto Symphony and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Herbig, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hogwood. In recital, he has enjoyed success in numerous festivals and series throughout the world. He tours regularly in the Far East and is repeatedly invited back by such orchestras as the NHK Philharmonic and Hong Kong Philharmonic. In September 1996, he returned to Australia for a further highly successful ABC tour.

The recipient of many international awards, Kimura Parker has been particularly honored in his native Canada, where in 1985 he was named the Canadian Music Council's "Performer of the Year".

A popular guest on television and radio, Kimura Parker has also seen his own composition, "Pan Dreams," (for flute and piano) performed and broadcast throughout Canada under the aegis of the CBC. On New Year's Eve of 1995, he gave a special performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto in Sarajevo as part of an AmeriCares relief airlift, which was televised live in fifty-nine countries and covered by CNN and SkyTV. Kimura Parker currently resides in New York City.