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Parker Matthew Davis Emmerson

I. Biography Born on July 21, 1987, in Durham Regional Hospital, Parker Emmerson has been a lifelong resident of Chapel Hill. Emmerson studied physics and chemistry at Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, OH, and majored in psychology and philosophy at Marlboro College, in Brattleboro, VT. Since June 2012, Emmerson has been the office manager at Mediterranean Deli and personal assistant of owner Jamil Kadoura. He plans to return to school for a master’s in architecture. At age six, Emmerson began playing piano compositions by Chopin, Satie, Debussy, Khachaturian and Messiaen. At age eight, he began composing, citing his influences as John Cage, Tchaikovsky, Steve Reich, Beethoven, and The Beatles. During high school, Emmerson was in a rock-synth band called The Clinic and created a musical networking website called myblogband.com to digitally connect bands like his during college. In his early teens, Emmerson worked primarily with oil on canvas, painting spontaneously gestural portrait