Introducing Abraham Parker.
Longhouse Records is extremely proud to represent this brilliant young composer, teacher, and performer. Abraham Parker is the grandson of the great television music composer and film music scholar, Fred Steiner, famous for his “Perry Mason Theme,” many superb episodes of Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Gunsmoke, The Bullwinkle Show, Dynasty, Tiny Toons, and stretching all the way back to the days of live radio. Abe is also the son of songwriter/artist Wendy Waldman, so he grew up surrounded by film, music, and literature.
Abe studied privately for nearly a decade with the great teacher and pianist Seth Osbourne.
The only freshman ever accepted directly into Cal Arts’ advanced theory division, Abe studied at Cal Arts but left to pursue independent study. He is highly trained and functional in numerous musical disciplines, with passion and knowledge spread equally through classical music, rock music, jazz, synthesis, blues, film music, and just about every instrument and style of music out there.
Abe has written songs with HB Barnum, Wendy Waldman, Deborah Holland, Mark Nubar, ShyBoy, Lisa Haley, Scott Babcock, and the great vocalist John Cowan, currently with the Doobie Brothers.
He has scored independent films, and with several of his bands, especially Like Baboons, has had a following as a performing artist. He also recorded and toured with Hypnogaja, ShyBoy, Deborah Holland, Lisa Haley, Wendy Waldman, Rob Hoffman, and numerous others.
Currently Abraham Parker divides his time between teaching—he is a very popular music teacher with upwards of 35 students studying everything from Beethoven to current radio hits, ranging in ages from 5 to 83—and composing for his own albums, recording on others’ projects, appearing with other artists live, and writing for the Longhouse Library.
In his catalog there are wonderful, inventive and widely varied types of music: orchestral, rock, punk, acoustic, synthesis, jazz, songs, piano music, guitar music—fun, serious, vintage, futuristic, but all highly individual and deeply melodic. Abe has a unique and powerful sense of harmonic and melodic structure, which informs his very individual take on music.