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...one of the most successful British electroacoustic composers Neue Krone Zeitung, Vienna |
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Biographical NotesJohn Palmer was born in 1959 and took his first piano lessons at the age of six. He is a British composer with a strongly international background: brought up in Wales, Italy, Switzerland, Russia and the UK he worked mainly on mainland Europe until 1990 when he returned to London. In the mid-seventies he began to compose and perform as a pianist and keyboard player and directed several groups of experimental music and jazz. Since the mid-eighties he has focused on instrumental, orchestral, vocal and chamber music, and in the early nineties he extended his compositional interests with electroacoustic resources. There have been many concerts and broadcasts of John Palmer's work worldwide and he has achieved a truly international cultural identity. |
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In 1994 he completed a Ph D Doctoral Research in Composition at City University, London. He also studied privately with Jonathan Harvey and was a friend of John Cage, whose sense of acoustic adventure is much alive in his music. One of the main preoccupations of John Palmer's music is the subtlety of timbral transformations. His compositional techniques vary from work to work from the application of vigorous and precise methodologies to the most spontaneous unfolding of musical ideas based on pure intuition. From 1991 to 1995 he was a lecturer in music at Oxford University, and since September 1995 he is a Lecturer in Composition and Electronic Music and Director of Research at the University of Hertfordshire, England. In 1994 he was also a visiting lecturer and music director at the Conservatory of Lucerne, Switzerland, and in 1995 a guest lecturer and pianist at the University of Southampton, England. As a promoter of contemporary music John Palmer has given several concerts and lectures in Europe and North America. In January 1994 he directed the Electroacoustic Festival of British Contemporary Music in Lucerne and in May 1996 two-days concert series in Vienna. At present he is working on further commissions, performances, lectures and broadcasts in Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Russia. Selected Works |
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