Born in Canada, Morris Palter has performed as a soloist in the Amsterdam Percussion Festival, participated in the Holland Festival, performed as a guest artist at the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, and has held xylophone master classes in Amsterdam and at The Rotterdam Conservatory respectively. He has also participated in the Musik III Festival in San Diego, the Green Umbrella concert series in Los Angeles, the Ragtime Xylophone Institute in Delaware, as well as performances at the Lincoln Center, and more recently Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall under famed conductor/composer Pierre Boulez.
In the summer of 2001, Morris Palter was the Assistant Composer and percussionist with The Old Globe Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in San Diego. Having also performed with the Sonor Ensemble, and as a soloist with the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Palter co-founded Noise in 2000 (San Diego New Music), and is a member of the percussion group Redfish Bluefish.
Winter 2002/03 found Morris performing solo recitals and guest lecturing at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Virginia respectively.
Morris Palter actively commissions both solo and chamber works and has collaborated with artists such as Steve Schick, Bob Becker, Pierre Boulez, Roger Reynolds, David Lang, Stewart Saunders Smith, Chris Tonkin, Derek Keller, Mathew Burtner, Lisa Cella, Colin McAllister, Elizabeth Swallow (McCaleb Dance), Chris Adler, David Lipton, RickBurkhardt, Eric Ullman, and Lower Left Dance Company.
Morris Palter has received degrees in music from the University of Toronto, the Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, and the University of California San Diego where he is also a Doctorate of Musical Arts Candidate and will be an Associate in Music in 2003/04. Morris is currently endorsed by Black Swamp Percussion Products, Ayotte Drums, and Paiste Inc.
