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[Newtown, PA] - Tony Parker is an independent singer/songwriter/musician and scientist/inventor (listen). By the age of eighteen, he was writing songs while simultaneously exploring his other passion – science. He published his first music recording, Mary Ann, in 1983 (Starlite MacPark (ASCAP)) and his first scientific research paper in 1986 (Polymer Bulletin, 1986, 16, 55). He has been writing, playing, recording, and experimenting ever since. Tony's songs are available for purchase and download from common digital platforms, including Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, and many others. 

Recordings Released by Starlite MacPark

Tony's recordings and compositions traverse several styles, ranging from folk and pop to contemporary Christian, country, and jazz. In all cases, he combines his fingerstyle titanium six-string guitar with a melodic piano/keyboard style – uniquely his own. In addition to We Need Love, his other music productions include Tony Parker, a collection of original songs and recordings featuring the world's first Titanium Acoustic Guitar Strings, Transformation, A Song for Every Season; and several legacy recordings, including The Bill Jenkins Trio: Jazz 1969, Christmas Toledo, and others.

Background and Experience

Tony Parker has more than forty years of songwriting and performing arts experience. His primary instruments include guitar, bass, piano, and harmonica.  He has performed as a solo artist in many small venues, and as a guitarist for the Adult Contemporary Ensemble at The Church of Saint Andrew in Newtown, and for the Yardley Players, a local theater production company in Bucks County.​
Tony Parker performs live at a Barnes & Noble event in South Bend, IN (circa 1996).
A Barnes and Noble appearance, South Bend, Indiana; circa 1996.
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Tony with Fran Roselli, Director of the Saint Andrew Folk Group, Christmas 2014.
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The Yardley Players pit crew performs "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in November 2019.

Science

Tony is the founder of Starlite MacPark Publishing (ASCAP) and is also the Principal Scientist and founder of A.A. Parker Consulting, LLC. Like his music, his research also traverses several “genres,” ranging from surface chemistry and silanes to polymer science and adhesion. He is the inventor of the world's first Titanium Acoustic Guitar Strings (U.S. Patent 6,348,646) and Organosilane Surface Treated Musical Instrument Strings (U.S. Patent 7,476,791). He also has 35+ years of research, development, and management experience; with expertise in product development, polymer science and adhesion, mechanical properties of polymers, coatings, structure-property-process relationships, thermal analytical methods, FTIR spectroscopy, and NMR spectroscopy. In parallel with his music publishing, Tony has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical publications – including more than 45 patents with several patents pending.
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