Meet Alan Parks, the new Corte Madera Town Band Conductor

Starting in late August, 2026, Alan K. Parks will assume the role of Conductor of the Corte Madera Town Band.

Alan is an experienced music educator, conductor, arranger, and bandleader living in Napa, CA. Instrumentally, he is an accomplished tuba player, double bassist and electric bassist.

Alan started conducting while in high school, and resumed conducting when he started working at Napa High School in 2013, where he is the Assistant Director of Instrumental Music, working with the Marching Band, Concert Band, String Orchestra, and Jazz Band. He knows his stuff so well that the Band Director at Napa High often refers to him as “Doctor” Parks.

As a performer, Alan can be found playing with several bands, notably The Lucky So and So's (swing and retro rock), Bourbon Street Brass Band, the Hunka Hunka Hula Revue, the Big Easy Big Band , the Roadkill Big Band, and The Awesome Orchestra Collective. He formed the Napa Hometown Community Band in 2024.

As conductor of the Corte Madera Town Band, Parks looks forward to programming performances that lean toward popular music and music that almost everyone will recognize. That may be arrangements of radio hits of the past and present, or classical selections that have appeared in popular culture, or maybe a standard everybody knows. Every so often, the audience may hear a piece they haven't heard that will expand their horizons. His overriding mandate is that music should be entertainment and that attending a show should leave the audience smiling and humming a tune they just heard.

Parks is a native of Napa and fifth-generation Californian, and is married with three adult daughters. He is honored, humbled, and excited to be the Corte Madera Town Band’s new conductor.