
JULIET PALMER
COMPOSER, SOUND ARTIST AND PERFORMER

Juliet Palmer | photo by Dahlia Katz
‘a fluent and versatile stylist, equally at home in accessible tonal idioms as well as modal textures coloured with Messiaen-like harmonies and rhythms.’
— Owen Mortimer, Opera Now (UK), 2012
Upcoming: Every Word Was Once An Animal with artist Carla Bengtson, biologist Emilia Martins, choreographer Darion Smith and video artist Jessie Rose Vala, Eugene, Oregon (August, 2019); Ukiyo, floating world, Urbanvessel and Toronto’s Thin Edge New Music Collective, ONGAKU Festival (September, 2019); small excesses, pianist Sarah Watkins and violinist Andrew Beer (Atoll CD release); Cutwork,Auckland Chamber Orchestra (October, 2019); Choreography of Trauma, Continuum and The Element Choir (February, 2020); and a commissioned work for Canada’s Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra with New Zealand conductor Gemma New (March, 2020).
Juliet was the 2011/12 Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards composer-in-residence at the New Zealand School of Music and the 2012 composer-in-residence of Orchestra Wellington. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Sunnybrook Research Institute in 2018 funded by the Ontario Arts Council. She is the winner of the Detroit Symphony’s Elaine Lebenbom Award and the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship 2018-19.
Juliet holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University and an M.Mus in performance, composition and time-based art from Auckland University.