John Parker

John MacDougall Parker (born September 19, 1967) is an American artist and avant-garde, experimental electronic musician from New York City who made a career as an Olympic rower, Coach, and Director of National Training Centers. His music is characterized by extreme timbres pushing the boundaries of the experimental genre. A large part of his oeuvre is sound art, but he weaves in elements of traditional music. As a visual artist and musician, his exhibitions and performances were arranged about four or five times a year, especially during the years that he was active, 1998–2008 and after 2019. Education He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in History at Princeton University in 1989. In 1994 he started a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Washington. He gained entrance to the University of Pennsylvania and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting in 2001. Sportsman career Between 1981 and 2020 John Parker made an international sports career as a rower, including the Olympics, an assistant coach, a coach, a head coach and Director of National Training Centers, sometimes in combination of these professions. Rower (1981–1993), also Olympic rower (1992) He was a three-year stroke of the Princeton varsity heavyweight crew and prior to that a Groton School oarsman including captain in his senior year. An Eastern Sprints medalist, he also earned two gold medals at Canadian Henley with the Potomac Boat Club while attending Princeton, and rowed on the U.S. Pre-Elite Team. In 1989, Parker was named to the U.S. National Team. He rowed in heavyweight eight, four, and pair winning national and international medals. In 1992, he stroked the U.S. men's heavyweight eight to a fourth place finish at the Olympic Games in Barcelona.