| Born in Canada, Morris's wide range of musical interests has found him performing throughout North America, Asia, and Europe at various festivals and concert venues. Some of these have included the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, the Agora Festival (IRCAM) in Paris, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) 2004, 2005, and 2008, the Quincena Festival in Spain, the Music Gallery in Toronto, as well as at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hallâs Weill Recital Hall under famed conductor/composer Pierre Boulez. Morris has performed solo recitals and residencies at the University of Birmingham, UK, Arizona State University, Stanford University, the Oberlin Conservatory, Queens College, Mercer University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Maryland (College Park and Baltimore County), the University of Toledo, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Virginia.
As a Novelty Jazz Xylophonist, Morris founded the Speak-Easy Duo (Colin McAllister, guitar) in 2003 and has appeared at the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival in Boulder, CO, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Orange County RagFest, the Breda Jazz Festival, NL, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the Ragtime Xylophone Institute in Delaware, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. In 2007, the Speak-Easy duo was invited to participate in the Bohem Jazz and Ragtime Festival, performing in cities throughout Hungary including Pecs, Komarom, Kecskemet, and Baja. In 2000, Mr. Palter co-founded NOISE (San Diego New Music), and was a member of the percussion group redfish bluefish (Artistic Director, Steven Schick) from 1999-2005. Mr. Palter is also actively involved with theatre, having been a composer and performer at both The Old Globe Theatre (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and the La Jolla Playhouse (The Scottish Play). Morris has also made recordings for various on and off-Broadway plays.
In the summer of 2006, Morris co-found the duo group Metasax/DRUMthings with composer/saxophonist/technology artist Matthew Burtner. To date, the duo has performed in Paris, Seattle, Toronto, New York City, Alaska, and San Diego.
Morris is the Artistic Director of Ensemble 64.8 (UAF percussion ensemble), the Artistic Director for the University of Alaska Fairbanks New Music Festival, the World Music Artistic Coordinator for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival (2008), and the Co-Artistic Director for the SoundON Modern Music Festival held each year in San Diego. Morris is dedicated to commissioning both solo and chamber works and has collaborated with artists such as Bob Becker, Pierre Boulez, Roger Reynolds, Cho-wen Chung, John Luther Adams, Scott Deal, Evelyn Glennie, David Lang, Stewart Saunders Smith, Thomas DeLio, Michael Roth, Philip Manoury, Christopher Burns, Iancu Dimitriescu, Christopher Tonkin, Chinary Ung, Aiyun Huang, Scott Wilson, Mark Menzies, and Christopher Adler.
Morris is a member of the Percussive Arts Society New Music/Research Committee and is the PAS Alaska Chapter President. He has been published in PAS Magazine, the San Diego Troubador Newspaper, and recently had a chapter published in the book "Essays on the Music and Theoretical Writings of Thomas DeLio, Contemporary American Composer." Morris currently endorsed by Black Swamp Percussion, Paiste Inc., and is a Yamaha Recording Artist. He can be heard on New World Records, Tzadik Records, Mode Records, Innova, and RCA/BMG. His solo CD was released on Centaur Records in 2006. As a lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, Morris enjoyed teaching various music history courses including Western Music History and Ragtime: From Slavery to Stravinsky, a course he created and taught for four years to classes of over 300 students.
Morris has received degrees from the University of Toronto, the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, and the University of California, San Diego where he received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2005. Morris was a Lecturer in Music at UCSD during the 2006/07 academic year and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information regarding upcoming engagements, please visit www.morrispalter.com.
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