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Ms. Parkins has appeared on over 70 CD's and in hundreds of concerts in both large and small spaces all over the world. A lightning bolt of a performer, Zeena is a sought after collaborator, performing with Jim O'Rourke, Nels Cline, Lee Renaldo, Kaffe Matthews (Weightless Animals), Thurston Moore, and Pauline Oliveros. Special projects have included touring and recording with Bjork (Vespertine, World Tour and Family Tree Tour), Tin Hat Trio (Book of Silk), Yoko Ono (Blueprint for a Sunrise), Don Byron, Butch Morris (International Comprovisation Ensemble), Elliott Sharp (Psycho~Acoustic, Orchestra Carbon), Ikue Mori (Phantom Orchard, B Side, Hex Kitchen), John Zorn (Cobra, Bezique, Darts, The Bribe) and Fred Frith (Soloist in Traffic Continues , Graphic Scores, Skeleton Crew and Keep the Dog). Zeena has appeared in dozens of music festivals in Europe, South America, Japan and the States including: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Lincoln Center Festival 2000, The Serious Fun Festival, ExperImenta in Buenos Aires, The Music Merge Festival in Tokyo, The Moers Festival in Germany, Willisau and Tacklos Festival in Switzerland, the LMC Festival in London, Vancouver Coastal Jazz and Blues Festival, Musique Action International in France, the Festival Mimi in Arles, City of Women Festival in Slovenia and the Festival Musique Actuelle in Canada.

International radio performances have been broadcast on ORF in Austria, VPRO in Holland, the BBC in England and on many US college radio stations. Zeena has been an Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks/Studio Pass and at STEIM in Amsterdam. Zeena has been funded by numerous organizations with commissions from the American Music Center, Arts International, New York State Council of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and Meet the Composer. In 1997, Zeena was honored with the prestigious award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts and won a Bessie, the NY Dance and Performance Award for her score for choreographer Jennifer Monson's Sender.

Zeena curates shows at home and abroad. One of her first programs was co-curated with fellow accordionist when she first moved to NYC, the immensely popular Accordion Summits . On occasion she also booked shows for the tiny but seminal A Mica Bunker, in the East Village. As guest curator, Zeena organized a four day international varied-media festival in Wels, Austria, called Z-Axis. She curated a month of New Music shows at Tonic in New York City and with Sylvie Courvoissier, co-curated the music program at the Swiss Institute/NY for their year 2000 season. For two years, Zeena served as a guest lecturer/ visiting artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She designed a History of Sound Art class that was offered by Tufts and the Museum School, the first class of its kind offered at this school. She has also lectured at the Museum School in Chicago and has taught workshops at Bennington College in Vermont and at Movement Research in NYC.