Duo Palamo

An outstanding lineup of entertainers will perform for the 2019-20 Arts-In-The Heart Concert Series at the beautiful St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral of Tallahassee, Florida. The first in the series is renown trumpeter, Longineu Parsons and the European prodigy, Joanna Sobkowska.  Longineu, a musician and composer who is hailed internationally by critics as one of the world’s finest trumpet players, is also a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and stage performer.  He lived in Europe for four years during the late 1970s and early 1980s. After a brief stay in New York, he accepted a teaching position at the Centre D\’Etudes Musicales in Guadalupe. Upon moving back to the U.S. in 1986, he was selected in a national audition to perform in the production of Satchmo as understudy to the leading roles of Louis Armstrong and Joe \”King\” Oliver. Dr. Parsons is on the faculty at Florida A&M University and continues to perform internationally with Joanna-Sobkowska-Parsons as the ensemble Duo Palamo. He has performed with  Billy Harper, the Louis Armstrong Legacy Band, Cannonball Adderley Tribute Band, and the late Nancy Wilson. Additionally, he appears frequently as a soloist with symphony orchestras.Dr. Sobkowska-Parsons has an international following.  Her piano repertoire includes masterworks of the Classical and Romantic eras, as well as numerous works from the 20th-century repertoire. As a chamber music pianist and accompanist, she has appeared with many prominent musicians in a broad repertoire ranging from Baroque music to premiers of new compositions. As a soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Sobkowska has performed on the concert series of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Poland, at the Festival Internacional del Piano in Bucaramanga, Colombia, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, the FSU Festival of New Music in Tallahassee, Florida, and CASMI International Summer Program in Prague, Czech Republic. She appears in several recordings.  She premiered and recorded for the Col Legno-Qualiton label Ladislav Kubik’s Sonata for Trombone and Piano with trombonist Jay Evans. She is the solo pianist for a CD recording of Ladislav Kubik’s Concerto Breve for piano and orchestra with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and she appears on the Triptych on Texts by Franz Kafka for the Col Legno-Qualiton label.