Morris Palter: Play What You Mean! October 13, 2006

MORRIS PALTER: PLAY WHAT YOU MEAN!
Solo percussion concert
Classic Avant series

Time:
8PM

Tickets:
$15 regular/$10 member + senior/$5 student

Event Details:
Play What You Mean! On Friday the 13th, Morris explores ideas of sound and gesture through an exciting and challenging selection of solo percussion works including newly composed pieces from Toronto based composer/percussionist Mark Duggan, and Australian composer Chris Tonkin. Other works on the concert include the seminal percussion solo “Bone Alphabet” by Brian Ferneyhough, as well as “Toucher” by Vinko Globokar. As always, Morris will conclude his Music Gallery solo concert with a selection of novelty ragtime xylophone tunes!

Artist biography
Born in Canada, Morris was a founding member of the Juno nominated alternative rock band treble charger (RCA/BMG) from 1993 to 1996. Upon leaving the group, Morris moved the The Netherlands to study percussion at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, and then to California to pursue a Doctorate degree under renowned percussionist Steven Schick at the University of California, San Diego.

Morris's wide range of musical interests has found him performing throughout North America 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 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) 2004 and 2005, the Quincena Festival in Spain, the Music Gallery in Toronto, as well as at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall under famed conductor/composer Pierre Boulez. He has also performed solo recitals and guest lectures at the University of Birmingham, UK, Stanford University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Queens College, Mercer University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the University of Virginia.

As a Novelty Jazz Xylophonist, Morris founded the Speak-Easy Duo in 2003 and has appeared at the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival in Boulder, CO, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Orange County RagFest, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the Ragtime Xylophone Institute in Delaware, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag.

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). In February of 2005, Morris composed music for the McCaleb Dance Company for the piece entitled Post and Lintel. Morris has also made recordings for various on and off Broadway plays.

Morris actively commissions both solo and chamber works and has collaborated with artists such as Steven Schick, Bob Becker, Pierre Boulez, Roger Reynolds, Evelyn Glennie, David Lang, Matthew Burtner, Stewart Saunders Smith, Philip Manoury, Chris Tonkin, Scott Wilson, and Colin McAllister.

Mr. Palter has been published in Percussive Notes Magazine and the San Diego Troubador Newspaper, and currently has endorsement contracts with Black Swamp Percussion products, Ayotte Drums, and Paiste Inc. He 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 can be heard on Mode Records, Centaur Records, New World Records, and on John Zorn’s label, Tzadik.

Related Links:
http://www.morrispalter.com

Official Website: http://www.musicgallery.org