Jon Kimura Parker

Jon Kimura Parker, known as "Jackie" to his friends, is a pianist who is not only interested in a wide range of music but also truly enjoys making music. It could even be said that he really knows how to play: he has performed wearing a Star Trek: The Next Generation costume, and he has slipped the theme to The Simpsons into a cadenza. Parker was born on December 25, 1959, and was raised in Vancouver, where he and his brother, pianist Jamie Parker, studied with their uncle Edward J. Parker. Jon also studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the Banff Centre for the Arts...