Parris, Robert
(1924–1999)
Parris, Robert. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 May 1924 – Washington, D.C., 5 December 1999 Parris began piano lessons at the age of 12. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1941–46) and at the Juilliard School (1946–48), where he was a pupil of Peter Mennin and William Bergsma. At Tanglewood in the summers of 1950 and 1951 he received lessons from Aaron Copland and Jacques Ibert. In 1952 on a Fulbright Fellowship he spent a year at the Ecole Normale du Musique in Paris, where he was a…