Juliet
Kiri Palmerbiography
Palmer's music has been described as "a genre-bending, groove-laden
universe of humour and iconoclasm". Working in diverse media, her
output
ranges from chamber music to multimedia installations, dance, music
theatre, opera and symphonic works.
Palmer's music has been featured at Italy's Angelica Festival, New
York's Bang On A Can
Festival, Royaumont's Voix
Nouvelles and Décadanse's Electrolune
(France),
SoundCulture (Japan), the Huddersfield and Bath
Festivals (UK), Ars
Electronica (Austria), Tot En
Met XXII (Amsterdam), Toronto's Water
Sources 2, Victoria's VOICE++ Festival @ Open Space Arts, the New Zealand
Festival and the Adelaide
Festival.
Performers of her music include trio
fibonacci, the Gryphon Trio, singer Patricia
O'Callaghan, the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, New Music Concerts, Tapestry New Opera Works, pianist
Eve Egoyan,
the Windsor Symphony, l'Orchestre
Métropolitain du Grand Montréal,
Arraymusic and Continuum (Canada); Les Percussions de
Strasbourg
(France); Piano Circus (UK); California EAR Unit, Marimolin and the Bang
on a Can All-Stars (USA); Veni Ensemble (Slovakia); Ensemble
för Ny
Musik (Göteborg, Sweden); and 175
East, the New Zealand String Quartet
and the Auckland Philharmonia
(NZ). She has collaborated with
choreographers Douglas Wright
(New Zealand); and Karen Kaeja, Yvonne
Ng
and Bill
James (Canada).
Palmer is a member of the interdisciplinary collective urbanvessel whose first
site-specfic project SLIP was
performed in September 2006 at Toronto's Harrison Street Baths.
Urbanvessel is a company-in-residence at Toronto’s Theatre Centre. Their next
work STITCH will premiere at
the FreeFall Festival in 2008. Other upcoming projects include Shelter,
an opera for Tapestry New
Opera Works, and a work for ensemble and improvising soloists for Vancouver New Music. Juliet Palmer is
guest curator for Continuum
Contemporary Music's 2005-2007 seasons and serves on the board of
the Canadian Music Centre.
Palmer has received grants from
the Canada Council for the Arts, Opera.ca, Creative New Zealand,
Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Laidlaw Foundation, The
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, Meet the Composer, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust,
the American Music Center and the New Zealand-China Educational Trust.
Scores and parts are
available from the New Zealand
Music Centre or the Canadian
Music Centre.
Email
may be sent to julietpalmer at gmail.com
UPCOMING:
W is for: the Canadian premiere performed by Toca Loca, with singers Vilma
Vitols and Marion Newman.
Sunday May 27th at 8pm
The Music Gallery
Toronto
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