He studied with Lee Kum-Sing at the Vancouver Academy of Music and The University of British Columbia, Robin Wood at the Victoria Conservatory, Marek Jablonski at the Banff Centre, and Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School.
[5] Parker has performed for the US Supreme Court, Queen Elizabeth II, and Prime Ministers of Canada and Japan.
[6] Parker once appeared on an episode of the Canadian children's TV puppet series Under the Umbrella Tree.
Near the end of the episode Parker performs a concert as part of the show, starting with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
He is Professor of Piano at The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University in Houston, Texas,[7] and as of 2015[update], is part of the group "Off the Score", with Stewart Copeland, Yoon Kwon, Marlon Martinez and Judd Miller.