Dr. Craig B. Parker

Associate Professor
Music History
Email: cbp@ksu.edu
Office: 128 McCain Auditorium

Biography
Craig B. Parker teaches undergraduate and graduate music history and also plays trumpet with the KSU Faculty Brass Quintet. He has also taught a variety of music theory courses at KSU as well as applied trumpet and horn. Parker was a member of numerous professional ensembles, including the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Spoleto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and the Composers Brass Quintet.

Dr. Parker's research and performance interests focus primarily on Asian American music, Sousa's Band and its members, Igor Stravinsky in the United States, and American music since 1945. He has published over 40 articles, chapters, editions, and reviews. Parker has presented and/or performed at over 110 regional, national, and international conferences. His most recent international presentations were at the 2024 International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music (Valencia, Spain) and the 2025 College Music Society International Conference (Bogotá, Colombia). Parker co-founded and led the SAM Brass Band, which performed at 30 conferences of the Society for American Music. He was a featured performer and/or lecturer at four Composition in Asia International Symposiums and Festivals and at two Asian Classical Music Initiative conferences. He also performed on New Works recitals at the last two International Trumpet Guild conferences.

Dr. Parker was on the advisory board for the Grove Dictionary of American Music (2013) and was the College Music Society Board Member for Musicology (2014-16). At K-State, Parker has won the William Stamey Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction and the Phi Kappa Phi Artist Award. In March 2011, he received the Society for American Music Distinguished Service Citation “in recognition of his sustained contributions to the society and its appreciation for nurturing our national music.”