Donald Parrish, music director

Conductor Donald Parrish began his musical career in high school when he joined his school band. He received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in Music History also from the U of M. He studied trombone with Glenn Smith of the University of Michigan and Allen Chase of the Detroit Symphony. He studied cello with Doug Marsh of the Detroit Symphony and Jerome Jelinek of the University of Michigan. He studied violin and conducting with Elizabeth A.H. Green of the University of Michigan.

He has performed with the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Plymouth Symphony, the Jackson Symphony, the Hillsdale Symphony, the Pontiac Symphony and the South Oakland Symphony orchestras, as well as the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra.

He was the founding conductor of the Huron High School orchestras, the Dexter High School orchestras and the Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra, as well as this Dexter Community Orchestra.

This will be his forty-eighth year of conducting public concerts.