About Dillon Parker

Dillon Parker is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied trumpet for two years with Tony Prisk. Dillon served as Adjunct Lecturer of Trumpet at Penn State University during the 2023-2024 academic year. 

In his full-time study at Peabody, Dillon presented solo recitals and played Principal Trumpet in the Peabody Conductor's Orchestra while studying baroque trumpet with Josh Cohen. He has performed with the Washington Bach Consort, Seraphic Fire, Bach Akadamie Charlotte, and the Ottawa Bach Choir.

 

Before moving to Baltimore, Dillon played in various Los Angeles orchestras including American Youth Symphony and Debut Orchestra. He also taught in underserved communities as a Teaching Artist with the Young Musicians Foundation. 

 

Dillon won Second Prize at the North American Baroque Trumpet Competition in April 2022. In 2016, Dillon won Third Prize in the Peninsula Symphony Young Artists Competition, as well as Second Prize in the 2015 Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. He performed as a finalist in the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Young Artists Competition in 2015, and as a semifinalist in the National Trumpet Competition Graduate Solo Division in 2017 and 2016.

 

In 2020, Dillon took part in Ryan Darke's Trumpet Forward where he studied with Tony Prisk, Chris Martin, Dave Elton, and Jim Wilt. He attended the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale in 2017 and 2018, and he performed at the Marrowstone Music Festival in 2016. He has also performed in masterclasses with Jim Wilt, Clément Saunier, Ed Carroll, Allan Dean, and Tine Thing Helseth. 

 

Dillon holds a Master of Music degree from California State University, Long Beach and a Bachelor of Music degree from University of North Dakota, where he was named a Theodore Presser Undergraduate Scholar in 2014.

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His previous primary teachers include Ryan Darke, Rob Frear, and Ronnie Ingle.