Parker Van Ostrand is currently a sophomore at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with Garrick Ohlsson and Jon Nakamatsu.

He recently won the 2023 Piano Texas Academy Concerto Competition and performed Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra this past June.

In 2022, he won the Gold Medal in the 71st Wideman International Piano Competition, and collaborated with Yuja Wang for a two-piano performance at the SFCM Gala in November.

Last June, he was selected to play in the inaugural G. Henle Verlag Murray Perahia Masterclass in Munich.

Parker also won Third Prize and the Best Sonata Award in the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, and was one of 20 high school students nationwide named a 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.

Since 2014, he has played with eight orchestras, and toured with the California Youth Symphony to Eastern Europe last summer with Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety.”

Next season, he will perform with the Camellia Symphony, Symphony Parnassus, South Arkansas Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music orchestra as winner of their 2023 Concerto Competition. H

e will also give recitals at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, the Tutunov Series in Ashland, and the San Francisco International Piano Festival.

Parker is from Sacramento, CA, and previously studied with Linda Nakagawa, Natsuki Fukasawa, and Sarah Chan.