Robert Parkins, organist, presents "The Golden Age of Spanish Organ Music"

Assisted by Kristen Blackman, cantor, University Organist Robert Parkins presents a recital of Spanish organ music from the 16th and 17th centuries, including works by Antonio de Cabezón, Francisco Peraza, Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia, Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Juan Cabanilles, and others. Robert Parkins is the University Organist and a Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University. For many years he has specialized in early Spanish keyboard music, and his organ and harpsichord recordings of this repertoire have appeared on the Calcante, Gothic, Musical Heritage Society, and Naxos labels. His performances have been praised as "stylistically informed and musically exciting . . . fresh and spontaneous, transforming the music from museum artifacts to living works of beauty" (The Diapason). Prof. Parkins is also the author of articles on performance practices in early Spanish keyboard music as well as the chapter on "Spain and Portugal" in "Keyboard Music Before 1700" (Routledge). *This recital is part of the FIMTE (International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music) summer workshop, "Fundamentals of Spanish Keyboard Music: 16th-Early 19th Centuries," held June 2-6 at Duke.