Dr. Nathaniel F. Parker
Dr. Bobbie Bailey GYSO Artistic & Executive Director, GSO Associate Conductor
A talented and versatile musician, Nathaniel F. Parker has conducted professional orchestras in the United States, Peru, Russia, Poland, England, and the Czech Republic. Equally at home working with professionals and training future generations of musicians, Dr. Parker is the Dr. Bobbie Bailey Artistic & Executive Director of the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestras (GYSO) and associate conductor of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra (GSO). He also serves as director of orchestral studies and associate professor of music at the Kennesaw State University Bailey School of Music.
Parker’s work as a conductor, scholar and educator has been recognized by the New World Symphony (Florida), Tanglewood Music Center, the International Conductors Guild, the American Prize, the College Music Society (CMS), the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), and the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA), among others. He is also the recipient of a Citation of Excellence in Teaching from the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA).
Parker earned graduate degrees in orchestral conducting from Michigan State University (DMA) and Bowling Green State University (MM). He also earned a BM in bassoon performance, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University. His mentors and teachers include Raphael Jiménez, Leon Gregorian, Stephen Osmond and Emily Freeman Brown (conducting), and Jeffrey Lyman and Catherine Lewis (bassoon)
