Vera Parkin
Adjunct Professor of Piano and Collaborative Piano
Vera Parkin has performed as a keyboardist in the St. Louis Symphony since 1987, participating
in recordings, Carnegie Hall tours, Discovery and Pulitzer series contemporary concerts,
and many Community Partnerships outreach concerts. In addition to experience as a
Principal Keyboardist, she has worked in professional theatre and opera, is active
as a pedagogue, arts administrator, chamber music and vocal coach, collaborative pianist,
and teaches theory and composition. As Artistic Director of the Webster University
Community Music School Preparatory Program, she supervises the region’s most advanced
young musician. This work continues in the summer as Director of Student Life at the
Innsbrook Institute and Festival. She received the BM and MM in Piano Performance
from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; undergraduate studies at Northwestern
University; doctoral work at Washington University. Her teachers have included Gui
Mombaerts, Ruth Slenczynska, and Seth & Maryse Carlin. She is a former Artist Presentations
Society winner, former Principal Keyboardist with the Illinois Symphony, and extra
keyboardist with the Memphis Symphony.
