Parkening has appeared on many nationally broadcast television programs, including The Today Show, The Tonight Show, 20/20, CBS Sunday Morning, and Good Morning America. He has been voted "Best Classical Guitarist" in a nationwide readers' poll of Guitar Player magazine for many years running.
Among his extensive discography, Parkening has received two Grammy nominations in the category of Best Classical Recording for Parkening and the Guitar and The Pleasures of Their Company, a collaboration with soprano Kathleen Battle. Parkening's critically acclaimed A Tribute to Segovia was dedicated to the great Spanish guitarist and was recorded on one of the Maestro's own concert guitars.
Parkening is also "world class" fly-fishing and casting champion who has won the International Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament (the "Wimbeldon" of fly-fishing) held in Islamorada, Florida.
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