Lecturer, Music Education; Director, BUMO and BU Bands
BM, University of Texas at El Paso; MM, Boston University. Mr. Parks is the Director of the Boston University Music Organizations, which provides music making opportunities for all members of the university community regardless of major. He conducts the Concert Band and the athletic bands as well as oversees the other ten ensembles in this department. He is in demand in the northeast as a clinician and adjudicator. He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA); Kappa Kappa Psi, national honorary band fraternity; Tau Beta Sigma national honorary band sorority; and Phi Mu Alpha, national music fraternity. He spent 5 years touring nationally and internationally as a trumpeter with numerous Broadway musicals including The King & I and The Sound of Music. He has toured with Marie Osmond and John Davidson and has performed with Julio Iglesias, Bobby Shew and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been a member of the faculty/staff of the Tanglewood Institute, the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar, Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps, The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps and the Drum Major Academy.