Alan Parmenter was born in London, in a family of artists. Here he has developed his reputation as a soloist and chamber musician with performances at the Wigmore Hall, the Wathen Hall, St John's Smith Square, Kneller Hall, Saddlers' Hall, the Queen's House, the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, Trinity House, the Tower of London, the V&A, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Ballet School, Leighton House, Pitshanger Museum, Tate Britain, Chelsea Hospital, the Chelsea Arts Club, the London Sketch Club, the Savage Club, Hendon United Synagogue, the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and the Manoukian Cultural Centre.
For four years at the Royal College of Music he studied with Professor Rodney Friend, the celebrated soloist and ex-leader of the London Philharmonic, London Symphony and New York Philharmonic orchestras. Professor Dona Lee Croft, also at the RCM, taught Alan for eight years.
Alan has benefited from many awards, from the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, the EMI Sound Foundation and the Musicas Fund, including Geoffrey Shaw, Robert Lewin and Sydney Perry memorial awards.
Further afield, he has performed Kodaly and Paganini at the Courchevel MusicAlp Festival and Dartington International Summer School and Bach in New York, Montpellier, Turin, Salzburg and Dorchester.
He plays a Matteo Goffriller violin, made in Venice c.1720. The instrument was kindly bought for Alan by an anonymous benefactor in 2008.
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