American/Canadian Recording Artist & Composer
Luke Parkin resides in Victoria British Columbia,
Canada.
Originally from Massachusetts, he studied classical music assiduously
from childhood demonstrating an exceptional facility at the keyboard
from the age of 6. He later studied performance at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and San Jose
University in California.
An artist like Luke Parkin does not come along often. One wonders which
quality of this extraordinary creative young man is most exceptional:
his enormous, 68 album catalog of recordings, comprising a multitude
of genres, his impressive aptitude at the keyboard, his originality of
sound, his good looks, or the fact that he is solidifying such a solid
musical career by the young age of 27 and making a unique impression. Luke has proven himself adept in all aspects of music making,
from the first inklings of melody writing to the highly specialized and
technical world of recording production and engineering. Luke is a
one-man-show; a comfortable wearer of any music-related hat.
Parkinʼs music is transcendent in many ways. His capabilities are far
beyond his years and the shear breadth of his body of work and prolific
output is representative of a tremendous ambition to create.
His years of training and firm grasp of serious music inform his
pieces, which seem to continue in natural succession from his greatest
influences: the great composers of the past.
His genius is evident in his many recorded improvisations, which seem
gracefully effortless. His music stubbornly defies any one requisite
style as he continues to cross-pollinate and experiment with sound in
a wide array of genres; including contemporary classical, electronica,
pop, film and t.v. scores, experimental as well as commercial music.
His most recent artistic endeavors consist of three full piano albums
which fully testify to his ever changing approach to the instrument
that he calls his first love. “Suite Hypercube”, “Piano Etudes”, and
most recently, “Winter Journal” are as different musically as they
are aesthetically. Winter Journal, released on December 21, 2005 is
perhaps the most contemplative and uncomplicated of Parkinʼs entire
works. The album is his first major commercial release to date yet
Like so much of his output, it is a perfectly natural, uncompromised
extention of his artistic self.