Juliet Kiri Palmer

Moving from New Zealand to New York in 1990 to work with composer-performer Meredith Monk, Juliet Palmer completed her PhD at Princeton University in 1999.  A multidisciplinary artist, her work 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), Water Sources 2 and Open Ears (Canada), the New Zealand Festival and Australia's Adelaide Festival.  A clarinettist and pianist, Juliet has also studied South Indian singing, Bharata Natyam, taiko drumming, shamisen, Japanese and Georgian folk-singing, clown, and Butoh.

 

Palmer is a member of the interdisciplinary collective urbanvessel whose site-specfic project SLIP premiered at Toronto’s Harrison Street Baths in 2006.  Urbanvessel is a company-in-residence at Toronto’s Theatre Centre where they are developing a new work for 3 vocalists and 3 sewing machines.  Upcoming projects include commissions for Tapestry New Opera Works, Toca Loca, Motion Ensemble, Morris Palter and a work for ensemble and improvising soloists for Vancouver New Music.  

 

June 30, 2007