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JARRETT

Jarrett Parker has performed along many of the biggest names in show business such as Jay Leno and Michael Jackson.

Magic has been a passion of Jarrett's since his earliest years when he formed "The Masters of Magic", a nationally televised illusion show played at Grossinger's in New York and the New York Playboy Club for an entire season. The following year, Jarrett wrote "Microcosmos", a magic musical with a cast of 30 and live band. During that same year, Mr. Parker was featured as the opening act for Bill Cosby aboard the Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth II.

During Nintendo's hugely successful 1990 thirty city U.S. tour, the role of the magical "Power Wizard" was created for Jarrett. Shortly after this tour, MTV produced a pilot around Jarrett called "Rock Magic Hour" while at the same time, Mr. Parker was tantalizing audiences with his magic and music at New York's Ballroom. A fourteen month off-Broadway run of his show, "Altered Reality" led to critical acclaim and in 1995, "Altered Reality" moved to the Debbie Reynolds Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

On the acting end, Mr. Parker (SAG) has played the lead in three movies - "The Lords of Magick" by Marsh Films, "On Your Own" by Walt Disney Productions, and ABC's "Tough Love"; he was also the lead in three music videos and three television specials. He has appeared in national commercials for Taco Bell, Nintendo, Coke, and Pepsi (with Michael Jackson).



RAJA

A graduate of The Juilliard School (BM, MM), Raja Rahman has studied with Seymour Lipkin, Jerome Lowenthal, Lev Vlassenko, and Byron Janis and was coached in chamber music by Joel Smirnoff of the Juilliard String Quartet and the late Felix Galimir. He has appeared in concert with Mstislav Rostropovich, Valerie Gergiev, Iona Brown and several other notable conductors as well as having been discovered by Sir Georg Solti in Hamburg who helped support Mr. Rahman's career at its outset.

Raja enjoyed early success in competitions such as the Canadian Music Competitions (national winner) and the YKAA International Piano Competition (grand prize). Along with colleague Charles Tauber, Mr. Rahman gave the American premiere of Janssen's "Veranderingen" as part of The Juilliard School's FOCUS! Festival. Raja's Weill Hall debut took place in 1992 followed by his first Lincoln Center concert at Alice Tully Hall in 1993. Along with violist Ralph Farris, Mr. Rahman performed often at St. Paul's Cathedral at New York's "Ground Zero" in late 2001 to help give relief to exhausted emergency workers.

Now living in Las Vegas, Raja founded Las Vegas Chamber Concerts in 2007, a top caliber chamber music presenter with an annual concert series. Raja concertizes both as soloist and chamber musician and tours extensively with "Jarrett & Raja", an international touring production that has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival (UK), China, London's West End, and New York.

Jarrett Parker
Raja Rahman

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