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Simone Parker
Temporary Employee
Music
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Contact
- parkersa@apsu.edu
- 931-221-6848
- Music Mass Comm Bldg Room MMC 370
- Alexander Technique - Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies, Greensboro, NC
- MM in Piano Performance - Austin Peay State University
- BA in Piano Performance - Austin Peay State University
- BA in International Business Administration - Berufsakademie Bad Mergentheim, Germany
Simone Parker teaches piano, violin and viola at her independent studio, Sparkling
Keys and Strings, and joined the Austin Peay State University (APSU) department of
music faculty as an adjunct instructor in 2012. Since Spring 2015, she offers group
and individual sessions in the Alexander Technique.
In 2014, Simone Parker became a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM), accredited
through the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and in 2010, she was awarded
the Excellence of Teaching Award from the APSU-Community School of the Arts. The award
recognizes Simone Parker for her continuous and consistent dedication to realizing
the very best from her students, teaching them that in music as in life, great endeavors
bring great rewards.
Mrs. Parker currently is the principal pianist at the Paducah Symphony Orchestra and
regularly accompanies and performs with students in her independent studio, other
community studios, and APSU music students. In the past she has been a church pianist/accompanist
and has been the music director for a local church. During the Summer, she presents
various summer camps and has been actively involved with the APSU Piano and String
Summer Camp.
Simone Parker has earned a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) in Piano Performance
and a Master of Music (with honors) in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy at Austin
Peay State University (APSU). There, she studied piano and composition with Dr. Jeffrey
Wood and piano pedagogy with Dr. Patricia Halbeck. Simone Parker has participated
in Master Classes with Awadagin Pratt, John Roberts and Ilya Poletaev, William Bennett
and the Claremont Trio. She has further studied accompanying with Dr. Mary Alice Domenica,
Dr. Eunbyol Ko and Anne Glass. On the violin and viola, she has studied with Dr. Emily
Hanna Crane, Alvaro Gomez and Douglas Droste.
Mrs. Parker continued her professional study with Sally Ahner, a certified Alexander
Technique (AT) teacher, and graduated from a three year teacher certification process
with the Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies Program. The Alexander Technique is a practical
discipline to develop body and mind coordination and to create ease of movement and
flexibility. To fund her AT studies, she has received the MTNA Teacher Enrichment
Grant and Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award. In Fall 2015 she became a certified
Alexander Technique teacher accredited through the professional organization Alexander
Technique International (ATI).
As a native of Germany, Simone Parker speaks fluent German and English. While living
in Germany, she has earned a Bachelor degree in International Business Administration
from the Berufsakademie Mosbach - Bad Mergentheim. The degree was coupled with a student
internship at an international renowned company.