Meet the Composer

"Ms. Parkins shares with other downtown composers a fondness for sudden juxtapositions, for riffs and minimalistic motifs and for interruptive string-plunks and percussion salvos, but she lets her music's discrete sections go on long enough to establish moods. While much of the noise was typical downtown music, the patterns- angular yet melodic, meshing yet unpredictable- were personalized."
—Jon Pareles, The New York Times, 5/24/1989