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Born in Canada, Morris Palter has performed throughout North America and Europe including appearances at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, the Agora Festival (IRCAM), Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Quincena Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, the Green Umbrella concert series in Los Angeles, the PASIC 2004 in Nashville, as well as at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall under famed conductor/composer Pierre Boulez. Mr. Palter has also performed at the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest Music Festival, the Amsterdam Percussion Festival, the new Disney Hall with Evelyn Glennie, and on CBC Radio’s weekly show Sounds Like Canada.
As a Ragtime Xylophonist, Morris was an invited guest soloist at the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival in Boulder, CO, the Ragtime Xylophone Institute in Delaware, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, and the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.
In the summer of 2001, Mr. Palter was the assistant composer and percussionist with The Old Globe Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in San Diego. Mr. Palter has also made recordings for various on and off-Broadway plays and musicals. More recently Mr. Palter was commissioned by the McCaleb Dance Company to compose the work entitled Post and Lintel. Mr. Palter co-founded NOISE in 2000 (San Diego New Music), and was a member of the percussion group redfish bluefish from 1999-2005.
Mr. Palter actively commissions both solo and chamber works and has collaborated with various artists including Steve Schick, Bob Becker, Pierre Boulez, Evelyn Glennie, Roger Reynolds, Michael Roth, David Lang, Derek Keller, and Matthew Burtner.
Mr. Palter received his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2005.
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