Morris Palter, Percussionist
Born in Canada, Morris Palter’s wide-range of musical interests have found him performing throughout North America, Asia, and Europe at some of the most prestigious festivals and concert venues including his Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall debut under famed composer/conductor Pierre Boulez in 2001. As a frequent guest at universities and conservatories worldwide, Morris has commissioned and/or premiered hundreds of new compositions, working with prominent composers and performers including Bob Becker, Joan Tower, Christopher Adler, Roger Reynolds, Anders Åstrand, Mark Menzies, Tom Hanks, Chou-wen Chung, John Luther Adams, James Tenney, Michael Roth, Phillipe Manoury, Scott Deal, Evelyn Glennie, David Lang, Stuart Saunders Smith, Eduard Zilberkant, Thomas DeLio, Michael Roth, Andres Diaz, Erik Griswold, Philip Manoury, Iancu Dimitriescu, Evan Ziporyn, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Tonkin, and Chinary Ung, among many others. Guest residencies include the “Roots and Rhizomes” summer percussion program (Banff Centre for the Arts), the Together Now Festival (Holland), the Open Ears Festival (Canada), the Technosonics Festival (University of Virginia), the University of British Columbia, the University of Miami, the University of Texas (Austin), Southern Oregon University, and the Royal College of Music (London, UK).
Recent commissions have included works from Bob Becker (“Sevenly Reward”), Bill Cahn (“Music of the Spheres”), Russell Hartenberger (“Black Coyote’), and Anders Astrand (“Just Arrived”)
Morris founded Ensemble 64.8 (University of Alaska Fairbanks resident percussion laboratory) in 2007, and served as its artistic director for nine years. The group performed chamber music with an emphasis on works by noted American and European composers was featured on concerts and festivals in Sweden, New York City, Toronto, PASIC, and across Alaska, working with famed performers/composers Christopher Adler, Bob Becker, and Anders Astrand. The group premiered six new percussion quintets composed by Alaskan, Matthew Burtner in 2009.
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 Bohèm Festival in Hungary, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Orange County RagFest, the Breda Jazz Festival, NL, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the Ragtime Xylophone Institute in Delaware, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. Morris recently revived the Speak-Easy monikor at the University of Arizona where he directs the Speak-Easy novelty ragtime band.
In 2000, Morris co-founded NOISE (San Diego New Music), which has presented the soundON Festival of Modern Music each January in beautiful La Jolla, CA since 2008. Previous to the soundON Festival, NOISE presented an annual concert season, also in La Jolla. Morris was a member of the percussion group redfish bluefish (Artistic Director, Steven Schick) from 1999-2005 and has also been actively involved with theatre, working as composer and performer at both The Old Globe Theatre and the Tony Award Winning La Jolla Playhouse and has made recordings for various on and off-Broadway plays. July 2018 found Morris providing all the percussion music for the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles’s production of King Henry IV, featuring Tom Hanks.
Morris was a member of the UAF Faculty Senate from 2009 – 2011, and was the Artistic Director for the University of Alaska Fairbanks New Music Festival and Co-Artistic Director for the soundON Festival of Modern Music held each year in San Diego. Morris was the host and director of the Focus Day of Percussion at the 2010 Percussive Arts Society International Convention and hosted the bi-yearly Alaska Day of Percussion. Morris was a member of the Percussive Arts Society New Music/Research Committee (2007-2015) and has been published in PAS journal and on Mellen Press, and is currently endorsed by Black Swamp Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, REMO drum heads, and Yamaha Percussion. Morris can be heard on New World Records, Tzadik Records, Centaur Records, Mode Records, Innova, and RCA/BMG and has received degrees from the University of Toronto, the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, and the University of California, San Diego where he received his doctorate of musical arts in 2005 and was a Lecturer in Music during the 2006/07 academic-year. Morris was an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2012-2017) and is currently a Professor of Music at the University of Arizona.
As director of the percussion program at the University of Arizona, Morris oversees the undergraduate percussion ensemble and the graduate percussion ensemble (Malleus), as well as CrossTALK (electronic percussion ensemble). In 2018, Morris created a new technology course focused on the use of Ableton Live. This course is now one of the more popular classes offered within the UA music program. Morris has served as the Chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee for two years, and Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the College of Fine Arts. Please visit percussion.music.arizona.edu for more information about the percussion program at the University of Arizona.
In 2018, Morris is the founder and director of the Tócalo Tucson Summer Chamber Percussion Seminar. Past guests have included Casey Cangelosi, Bill Cahn (NEXUS), Bob Becker, (NEXUS, Steve Reich Ensemble), Matthew Burtner, Anders Astrand, Russell Hartenberger (NEXUS, Steve Reich Ensemble), and Michael Burritt (Eastman School of Music). Please visit tocalotucson.org for more details.
Morris also served as President for the Arizona Chapter of PAS for three years (2021-2023). In this capacity, he oversaw, hosted, and curated numerous AZ Days of Percussion events.
Morris holds endorsement contracts with Black Swamp Percussion, Malletech, REMO drumheads, and Sabian Cymbals.
Live
2018
Glendale Community College
December 8th
Guest soloist – Novelty Ragtime Xylophone
Excited to perform with the Glendale Community College Percussion Ensemble (director, Wes Hawkins)
Fred Fox School of Music, Tucson, AZ
December 2nd
University of Arizona Percussion Ensemble Concert
Works by Toru Takemitsu, Erik Griswold, Ian Mast, Edgard Varese, and others!
Crowder Hall, 7:30pm
La hija de Rappaccini opera, Tucson AZ
November 10th and 11th, University of Arizona
ENR2 Institute of the Environment Building
7:30pm
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
October 26th
Masterclass – Morris Palter
Reconciling Polyrhythms and Complex Rhythms
University of Texas, Austin, TX
October 24th
Masterclass – Morris Palter
Reconciling Polyrhythms and Complex Rhythms
Speak-Easy Novelty Ragtime Band
October 18th
U. of AZ Campus Health
What better way to celebrate 100 years of student health than music from the 1920’s!
Music Plus Festival, University of Arizona
October 14th
Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Morris joins the ASO percussion section to perform Daniel Asia’s Symphony No. 4
Crowder Hall, 4:30pm
Speak-Easy Novelty Ragtime Band
October 5th
U. of AZ College of Fine Arts
Celebrating the accomplishments of CFA students at U. of AZ.
Speak-Easy Novelty Ragtime Band
September 21st
Ronald McDonald House, Tucson, AZ
Great night of ragtime xylophone goodness, all for a great cause!
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles – King Henry IV (Directed by Daniel Sullivan)
June 5 – July 1
The Japanese Garden at the West Lost Angeles VA Campus
Morris Palter – percussion
Featuring Tom Hanks as Falstaff, Hamish Linklater, Joe Morton, and Rondi Reed.
Tocalo Tucson Summer Chamber Percussion Seminar, Morris Palter – Artistic Director
June 3rd – 8th
Fred Fox School of Music, University of Arizona
A weeklong percussion chamber seminar featuring guest artists, Casey Cangelosi and Bill Cahn (NEXUS)
For more information please visit tocalotucon.org
Faculty Recital, Morris Palter
February 15th
The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents “Gatherings,” a Faculty Artist Series recital featuring Morris Palter, percussion. Featuring solo percussion classics, xylophone ragtime, guest artists, and a world premiere of the new drum set duo, “Woven.” This concert promises to delight the most discerning of percussion connoisseurs.
Guest Artists: Greg Harrison, drum set, Matt Tropman, tuba, Eddie Goodman, soprano saxophone, members of the UA percussion studio (Michael Pratt, Jacob Ransom, Zachary White, Laura Marsh).
Crowder Hall, 7:30pm
soundON Festival of Modern Music, La Jolla, CA
La Jolla Athenaeum Library, January 4th – 7th
It matters not the destination…
Saturday, January 7, 2:00pm
Katharina Rosenberger, Gesang an das noch namenlose Land
Glenda Keam, Mind Springs ** U.S. premiere
Samuel Holloway, Incus ** U.S. premiere
Anne LeBaron, Four
Anne LeBaron, Fore
Christon Hatzis, Arctic Dreams I
Juan Pablo Contreras, Pueblos Magicos ** U.S. premiere
…to serenade even the unfortunate path
Saturday, January 6, 7:30pm
Liza Lim, The Turning Dance of the Bee ** U.S. premiere
Juan Campoverde Q., Exótica **world premiere, commissioned by the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Juan Pablo Contreras, Four Nocturnes
Samuel Holloway, Austerity Measures ** U.S. premiere
Anne LeBaron, Noh Reflections
Adam Greene, Orpheus Dies ** world premiere
Exotic images from an inner journey
Thursday, January 4, 7:30pm
Toshio Hosokawa, Stunden-Blumen (Toki no Hana)
Anne LeBaron, I am an American…My Government Will Reward You
Juan Pablo Contreras, Palimsesto
Roger Reynolds, imagE/viola
Adam Greene, Absence ** world premiere
Risto Pulkkinen, Trio
2019
soundON Festival of Modern Music: The Stories We Tell curated by Franklin Cox and Christopher Adler
January 10-13, 2019
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St, La Jolla, CA
Curators Franklin Cox and Christopher Adler chart the evocative domain between language and music with an adventurous collection of the newest music that is the signature of the annual soundON Festival. Instrumental music with strong narrative elements ranges from Gleb Kanasevich’s contemplative Solo, to Jason Eckardt’s explosive and virtuosic tour-de-force After Serra, to radical deconstructions in a brand new work by Franklin Cox, commissioned by the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. From guest composers Sungji Hong and Derek Keller, music tells stories with both sound and visual image. And language itself becomes the subject in works by Erin Gee, where the sound of speech is translated into musical sound, and Lei Liang’s Aural Hypothesis which is based on the gestures of Chinese calligraphy. soundON favorite Stephanie Aston returns to perform a duo by Kate Soper, with NOISE flutist Lisa Cella, in which the musical medium explodes language to its fullest expressive potential. And percussionist Morris Palter will perfrom selections from Christopher Adler’s recent collection of settings of Russian transrational futurist poetry in visually-evocative scores.
The soundON Festival of Modern Music is underwritten by a generous donation from Garna Muller and is supported by a grant from the Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation
Housing for artists is generously provided by Ann Craig and Garna Muller
Photo by Sam Zauscher
NOISE
Colin McAllister, guitar and conductor
Lisa Cella, flute
Franklin Cox, cello
Morris Palter, percussion
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Christopher Adler, piano
SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Annabelle Terbetski, viola
Stephanie Aston, soprano
Jackie Glazier, clarinet
Eric Starr, trombone
Matt Kline, bass
Mari Kawamura, keyboard
Derek Keller, composer and electronics
Sungji Hong, composer
Thursday, January 10, 7:30 p.m.
Erin Gee, Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter
Christopher Adler, selections from Zaum Box
Gleb Kanasevich, Solo
Alexina Louie, Cadenzas
Jason Eckardt, After Serra
Saturday, January 12, 12:00 p.m.
soundON Workshop Concert
Program TBA
Featuring young composers and performers from San Diego
Admission is free for the soundON Workshop Concert
Saturday, January 12, 7:30 p.m.
Sungji Hong, Lazare veni foras!
Derek Keller, The End Times are a’Changin’
Franklin Cox, Parable ** world premiere, commissioned by the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Sunday, January 13, 2:00 p.m.
Kate Soper, only the words themselves mean what they say
James Erber, New Work for clarinet and cello ** world premiere
Christopher Adler, selections from Zaum Box
Lei Liang, Aural Hypothesis
Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athenaeum Members, seniors / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athenaeum Members, seniors / $5 Students
University of Arizona Hockey – National Anthem Performance
Morris will perform the National Anthem alongside “Flutefinity” for the UA Hockey Team at the Tucson Convention Center! Combines his love of hockey and drumming! 7:15pm
Arizona PAS Weekend of Percussion
March 22-23rd
Fred Fox School of Music, University of Arizona
Guest artists include percussionist, Sean Dowgray, and drum set pedagogue, John Riley (Manhattan School of Music). Please check back for more details!
Second Annual Tócalo Tucson Summer Chamber Percussion Seminar, Morris Palter – Artistic Director
June 1st – 8th
Fred Fox School of Music, University of Arizona
A weeklong percussion chamber seminar featuring guest artists, Matthew Burtner (Composition), Anders Astrand, and Bob Becker (NEXUS). For more information including tuition and application process, please visit tocalotucson.org
Jackie Glazier Faculty Clarinet Recital
Thursday, September 12th
Morris performs the work, “Corker” by Libby Larson (clarinet and percussion duo) with faculty colleague, and director of the clarinet program, Jackie Glazier. Crowder Hall, 7:30pm, Fred Fox School of Music – FREE
Music Plus Festival – University of Arizona, director, Daniel Asia
Thursday, October 10th – Sunday, October 13th
Morris conducts the famed work, “Hyperprism” by Edgard Varèse – More details soon!
Music+ Festival
Saturday/Sunday, October 12th/13th
Morris conducts the famed work, Hyperprism by Edgard Varese for the Fred Fox School of Music’s “Music +” Festival (director, Daniel Asia). A great weekend of modern music.
Please visit music.arizona.edu
2020
soundON Festival of Modern Music: Thresholds curated by Colin McAllister
January 9-12, 2020
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St, La Jolla, CA
In the Confessions, St. Augustine wrote about the distentio animi, the distension of the mind that refers to its stretching out in relation to past and future, a three-fold present known in memory, attention, and expectation. This is an analogue to what musicians would call “performative time,” or perhaps, what Gabriel Motzkin calls “abnormal time,” a transcendent state that can be experienced only at those rare moments when the normal, everyday world loses its meaning, thus making this kind of time more authentic. The 13th edition of the soundON Festival of Modern Music explores these rarified states, these journeys to thresholds of space, time, memory and perception.
This year we welcome five visiting composers: Anthony Tan (who will also perform his aptly titled Endlessnessnessness for solo piano and live electroncs), Lukas Schulze, Stuart Saunders Smith (premieres of solo works for flute and guitar), Vera Ivanova and Derek Keller. We celebrate Mark Osborn and Nathan Brock, two old friends who have gone beyond the threshold into eternity, but whose life and music continue to resound with us. We will explore the work of Argentinian-Uruguayan composer Graciela Paraskevaídis, in whose compositions “the basic coordinates of every musical occurrence—time and silence—are experienced as sanctuaries of solidarity and resistance, and are as well an origin of an intense hope.” Saturday evening’s concert features two large ensemble works, Alberto Posadas’s Tres pinturas imaginarias, and Gerard Grisey’s monumental Vortex Temporum, which explores “three gestalt sounds, three spectra, and three archetypes of time.”
The soundON Festival of Modern Music is underwritten by a generous donation from Garna Muller and is supported by a grant from the Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation
Housing for artists is generously provided by Ann Craig and Garna Muller
Photo by Sam Zauscher
NOISE
Colin McAllister, guitar and conductor
Lisa Cella, flute
Franklin Cox, cello
Morris Palter, percussion and conductor
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Christopher Adler, piano
SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS
Marion Garver, contrabass flute
Vera Ivanova, composer
Derek Keller, composer
Matt Kline, bass
Ezekiel Mortensen, composer
Martha Muehleisen viola
Todd Rewoldt, saxophone
Stuart Saunders Smith, composer
Diego Rodriguez, composer
David Savage, bassoon
Lukas Schulze, composer
Anthony Tan, composer, piano
Ilana Waniuk, violin
Jane Zwerneman, horn
Thursday, January 9, 7:30 p.m.
… on the edge of forever …
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Sin ir mas lejos
Anthony Tan, Endlessnessnessness
Mark Osborn, Sleep in the Shape of My Body
Stuart Saunders Smith, Giants ** world premiere
Student composer commissioned work by Diego Rodriguez (UCSD)
Nathan Brock, Cenotaph
Saturday, January 11, 7:30 p.m.
liminal space and the archetypes of time
Alberto Posadas, Tres pinturas imaginarias
Stuart Saunders Smith, Peace ** world premiere
Gerard Grisey, Vortex Temporum
Sunday, January 12, 2:00 p.m.
… the edge of perception …
Derek Keller, Three Pieces for Piano
Student composer commissioned work by Ezekiel Mortensen (Palomar College)
Mark Applebaum, Aphasia
Anthony Tan, On the Sensations of Tone II
Vera Ivanova, Aura
Lukas Schulze, EXIT ID
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido
Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athenaeum Members / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athenaeum Members / $5 Students
Purchase tickets here (links to the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library site)
Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athenaeum Members, seniors / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athenaeum Members, seniors / $5 Students
“Music for a New World” Michelle Gott, harp; Morris Palter, percussion; Michael Dauphinais, piano; and friends
“Music for a New World”
Michelle Gott, harp; Morris Palter, percussion
Michael Dauphinais, piano; and friends
Faculty, Students
February 16, Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $Free
Experience a new world of sound as UA faculty and guests present an afternoon of contemporary music. Hosted by harpist Michelle Gott, this concert will feature a rare performance of “Sur Incises,” an extraordinary work for three harps, three pianos and three percussionists by Pierre Boulez, conducted by faculty colleague Daniel Asia.
University of Southern California, Clinics/Masterclass, Monday, February 24th
Morris visits the famed percussion program at USC to give a xylophone clinic and masterclass. Excited to hang with the Jim Babor (LA Philharmonic), and the studio of percussionists.
PAS Weekend of Percussion – Arizona State University,
Friday, March 20th/Saturday March 21st
Morris and members of the graduate percussion studio will perform at the PAS Weekend of Percussion hosted at Arizona State University. Pleiades, among other fabulous works! Hope to see you there!
Malleus Concert
Sunday, April 5th, Crowder Hall, Fred Fox School of Music, 7:30pm, FREE
Spring 2020 Malleus percussion ensemble concert!
2022
Rock Shabbat!
Friday, January 14th, Temple Emmanuel
Morris is back playing in the house band for ROCK SHABBAT! Nice…
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Saturday/Sunday, March 5th and 6th
Young People’s Concert, Percussion Section
Glendale Community College
Wednesday, March 9th, Masterclass
Multiple Percussion masterclass with members of the Glendale Community College Percussion Program
Saturday, April 16th
Arizona Percussion Festival, Director and Host, University of Arizona
Full day of guest clinicians, solo and ensemble competitions, culminating with an eventing concert featuring schools from across Arizona including Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Glendale Community College, and numerous local high school performers.
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Thursday/Friday, April 28th/29th
Kinderkonzert, Percussion Section
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Monday – Wednesday, May 9th – 11th
Education Special Concerts, Percussion Section
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday – Thursday, May 17th – 19th
Young People’s Concert, Percussion Section
Tocalo Tucson 2023
Friday, June 3rd – Saturday, June 11th
University of Arizona
Third annual Tocalo Tucson featuring guest artists Russell Hartenberger (NEXUS, Steve Reich), and Michael Burritt (Eastman School of Music). Ten days of clinics, masterclasses, daily rehearsals culminating in two evening concerts (June 10th and 11th).
Please visit tocalotucson.org for more information!
Monday, November 1st – Friday, November 4th
University of Southern Oregon
November 2023
Residency, University of Southern Oregon – Novelty Ragtime Xylophone masterclass and concert featuring members of the SOU Percussion Studio
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
December 17th and 18th
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without Holiday concerts! Happy to be joining the Tucson Symphony Orchestra on a couple of holiday concerts to round out their year. Also very happy for Trevor Barroero who won their principal percussion position! For more information, please visit tucsonsymphony.org
2023
soundON Festival of Music
January 6-8, 2023
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St, La Jolla, CA
NOISE
Colin McAllister, guitar and conductor
Lisa Cella, flute
Franklin Cox, cello
Morris Palter, percussion and conductor
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Christopher Adler, piano
SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS
TBD
Thursday, January 9, 7:30 p.m.
… on the edge of forever …
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Sin ir mas lejos
Anthony Tan, Endlessnessnessness
Mark Osborn, Sleep in the Shape of My Body
Stuart Saunders Smith, Giants ** world premiere
Student composer commissioned work by Diego Rodriguez (UCSD)
Nathan Brock, Cenotaph
Saturday, January 11, 7:30 p.m.
liminal space and the archetypes of time
Alberto Posadas, Tres pinturas imaginarias
Stuart Saunders Smith, Peace ** world premiere
Gerard Grisey, Vortex Temporum
Sunday, January 12, 2:00 p.m.
… the edge of perception …
Derek Keller, Three Pieces for Piano
Student composer commissioned work by Ezekiel Mortensen (Palomar College)
Mark Applebaum, Aphasia
Anthony Tan, On the Sensations of Tone II
Vera Ivanova, Aura
Lukas Schulze, EXIT ID
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido
Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athenaeum Members / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athenaeum Members / $5 Students
Purchase tickets here (links to the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library site)
Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athenaeum Members, seniors / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athenaeum Members, seniors / $5 Students
October 8th, 2023
“Black Coyote” Recording Session
University of Arizona, School of Music – Crowder Hall
Record of newly commissioned multi-percussion work from Russell Hartenberger (NEXUS, Steve Reich Ensemble)
Morris Palter (percussion)
October-December, 2023
House Drum Set Player – Gaslight Theatre, Tucson, AZ
House drum set player at Award-Winning Gaslight Theatre, multiple productions
Tucson Symphony Orchestra – Percussion Section
Oct 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Classics 2 Cycle, percussion section, two concerts
Oct 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Raiders of the Lost Ark, percussion section, two concerts
Sept 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Community Service Cycle, percussion section, two concerts
May 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Young People’s Concert, percussion section, two concerts
April 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Kinderkonzert, percussion section, two concerts
April 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Mariachi Conference, percussion section, two concerts
Feb 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Pops 3 Cycle, percussion section, percussion section, two concerts
Feb 2023 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Classics 6 Venezuelan Valentine, percussion section, two concerts
2024
Nov 2024 Percussive Arts Society International Convention – Indianapolis, IN. Invited guest performer
performed commissioned work, WOVEN
Nov 2024 Residency – Canadian Music Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada – three-day residency clinic and concert
Apr 2024 “Mudra” performance (vibraphone), Crowder Hall
Mar 2024 Gas Light Theatre – House Drum Set Player – 30+ performances over the course of two months of their “Charlie’s Angels” production
Mar 2024 New Commissioned trio work with Duo Entre-Nous (Dr. Jackie Glazier, Don-Paul Kahl) from composer, Robert Lemay
Jan 2024 Gas Light Theatre – House Drum Set Player – 30+ performances over the course of two months of their “Curse of the Pirates Gold” production
Jan 2024 University of Arizona – “Polyrhythm Primer” masterclass
Tucson Symphony Orchestra – Percussion Section
Dec 2024 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Pops Special 2 – Frozen (Movie), two concerts
Nov 2024 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Pops Special 1, percussion section, two concerts
Sept 2024 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Community Service 2 Cycle, percussion section, one concert
May 2024 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra 3 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, two concerts
April 2024 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Pops Special 5 Cycle, percussion section, two concerts
Feb 2024 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Classics 6 Cycle, percussion section, two concerts
2025
Dec 2025 Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ. Invited guest performer, percussion ensemble concert
Nov 2025 Percussive Arts Society International Convention – “Stepping into Crazy Army” – Co-composer
and performer of a new work premiered at the 50th Anniversary of PASIC
Oct 2025 School of Music, Wildcat Experience – Studio hand drumming performance, Director
Apr 2025 University of Arizona, School of Music, Bob Becker residency concert (NEXUS, Steve Reich
Ensemble). Studio concert featuring the music of Bob Becker, pre-concert talk with Bob Becker
Mar 2025 Conservatorio Superior De Música De Vigo, Spain. Chamber performance w/members
of CSMV percussion studio
Mar 2025 Solo Recital, Conservatorio Superior De Música De Vigo, Spain.
Feb 2025 All-Star Honor Band Faculty Showcase Concert, performance w/members of percussion studio
Tucson Symphony Orchestra – Percussion Section
Oct 2025 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, TSO Percussion Quartet, member, Children’s Museum
April 2025 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Classic 8 Cycle, percussion section, Carmina Burana, two concerts
Mar 2025 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Classic 7 Cycle, percussion section, two concerts
Feb 2025 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Pops Special 4 Cycle, percussion section, two concerts
Feb 2025 Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Master Works 4 Cycle, percussion section, three concerts
2017
University of Northern Arizona
Masterclasses and solo recital. Works by Jolas, Applebaum, and Francois, as well as some ragtime tunes. Promises to be a great concert and fun hang. Come on by!
February 2nd, 2017
soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego, CA – “Soundstreams and Rising Currents”
Tenth anniversary soundON Festival of Modern Music and the 21st anniversary of San Diego
New Music. You should be there because I am the Curator of this year’s festival.
January 7th – 10th, 2017
more information: SoundON Festival
2016
PASIC 2016, Indianapolis, IN
Solo Performance. Looking forward to it.
November 9th-13th, 2016
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Ensemble 64.8
Spring Semester percussion studio concert
April 21st, 2016
Royal College of Music Orchestra, Toronto, ON, Canada
Exciting program of music with the RCM Orchestra including Ravel, and
April 9th, 2016
more information: Royal Conservatory of Music
soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego, CA – “Soundstreams and Rising Currents”
Ninth anniversary soundON Festival of Modern Music and the 20th anniversary of San Diego New Music. You should be there. Please visit the link below for full festival details.
January 8th – 11th, 2016
more information: SoundON Festival
2015
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Ensemble 64.8
Spring Semester percussion studio concert
April 18th, 2015
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Masterclasses and solo recital. Excited to hang with good friend Colin McAllister at UCCS. Look for the Speak-Easy Duo reunion concert…
April 21st – 26th, 2015
Pacific Northwest Percussion Festival, U. of Southern Oregon
Ensemble 64.8 travels down south to perform at a killer percussion festival.
April 8th – 12th, 2015
soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego
Eighth anniversary soundON Festival of Modern Music and the 20th anniversary of San Diego New Music. Guests and works TBA soon. You should be there. Please visit the link below for full festival details.
January 8th – 11th, 2015
more information: SoundON Festival
Older Live Appearances
2014
PASIC 2014, Indianapolis, IN
Judge for solo multiple percussion competition. Always a fun hang at PASIC.
November 19th – 22nd, 2014
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Masterclasses and solo recital. Look for some ragtime goodness to go down. Good to get to a warm climate and hang in Vegas..!
October 26th – 29th, 2014
Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra Tour, Seoul, Korea
FSO taking it on the road this fall..! Excited to get back to Korea.
October 8th -19th, 2014
University of Tucson, Arizona
Masterclasses and solo recital. It’s been a while AZ – no doubt this will be better than my last trip!
September 27th – 30th, 2014
Ensemble 64.8 spring concert, Davis Concert Hall, UAF – “Percussion Provocations”
Another killer concert by UAF resident percussion lab, Ensemble 64.8. Works include Straitjacket by Mark Applebaum, Strings Attached by Erik Griswold, and Threads by Paul Lansky.
Saturday, April 19th, 2014, 7pm
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Masterclasses and solo recital. Honored to be invited down and perform for the faculty and students at WWU. Good times!
April 13th -16th, 2014
Percussive Arts Society, Alaska Day of Percussion
University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, Saturday, April 5th
An event not to be missed! Percussive Arts Society, Alaska “Day of Percussion” is proud to present famed percussionist, Svet Stoyanov. Other guests include Ensemble 64.8, and many more TBA
Saturday April 5th, 2014, All Day
White Mountains 100 mile winter bike race
Fairbanks, AK
My fourth time racing the Whites. I am going to tear this thing up. Watch out Breitenbach…coming for you…Ha ha…
Sunday, March 30th, 2014
UAF Northern Exposure Festival of Modern Music, Fairbanks, AK
Three fabulous concerts featuring some of UAF’s brightest and best students, faculty, and a guest artist concert by famed Canadian violinist, Veronique Mathieu.
Thursday – Student performers – Music at One
Friday – Faculty and student performers, 7pm
Saturday – Veronique Mathieu solo violin recital, 7pm
All concerts in Davis Concert Hall,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, January 30-February 1st, 2014
soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego
Seventh anniversary soundON Festival of Modern Music presented by San Diego New Music. Guests include composers Matthew Burtner and Derek Keller. You should be there. Please visit the link below for full festival details. Solo percussion works by Adler, Burtner, and Applebaum.
January 8th – 11th, 2014
more information: SoundON Festival
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thompson Hall + Hamilton Place
Morris performs with the Toronto Symphony. Salute to Vienna concert
Wednesday, January 1st – Roy Thompson Hall
Sunday, January 5th – Hamilton Place
2013
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thompson Hall
Morris performs with the Toronto Symphony. Bravissimo concert
Tuesday,December 31st, 2013
PASIC 2013, Indianapolis, IN
Excited to be performing on Focus Day and for the Mark Applebaum concert. Great times at PASIC. I wish you were coming.
November 13th – 16th, 2013
University of Miami, Florida
Masterclasses and solo recital. Good to get to a warm climate in the fall and hang with Svet Stoyanov.
November 8th, 2013
Glenn Gould School, RCM Toronto
Percussion student adjudications. Great to see what the RCM students are up to!
Saturday, April 27th and Monday, April 29th,2013
Salome, Canadian Opera Company, Atom Egoyan, Director, Toronto
Excited to work with famed Canadian film director who will be producing and directing Richard Strauss’s opera, Salome
April 21st – May 22nd, 2013
White Mountains 100 mile winter bike race
Fairbanks, AK
My third time racing the Whites. I am going to tear this thing up. Watch out Breitenbach…coming for you…Ha ha…
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thompson Hall
Morris performs with the Toronto Symphony. Come check it out…
Tuesday, February 19th, Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Elegy, Snow in June – Glenn Gould School
Excited to perform this fantastic work for solo cellist and four percussionists by Tan Dun. David Kent conducts, John Rudolph of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is on board, as well as buddies Trevor Tureski and Mark Duggan. Going to be great!
January 20th, 2013
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Vancouver, BC
Morris travels back to Vancouver, BC for a series of performances of the famed Bartok “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion” and Lutoslawski’s “Variations on a Theme by Paganini.” Excited to be working with Danny Tones, as well as pianists Christopher Morano and Cory Hamm.
Tuesday, January 8th – University of British Columbia
Master-class and performance
Wednesday, January 9th – University of Langley, BC
Performance of the “Bartok Sonata for Percussion and Piano” and “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” by Witold Lutoslawski.
Master-class performance for UL percussionists
Thursday, January 10th – University of New Westminster, BC
Performance of the “Bartok Sonata for Percussion and Piano,” “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” by Witold Lutoslawski, and Mark Applebaum’s “Aphasia.”
Master-class performance for UNW percussionists
Salute to Vienna, Roy Thompson Hall
Morris performs with the members of the Canadian Opera Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for the annual “Salute to Vienna concert.” Bring your waltzing shoes and see you there..!
January 1st, 2013, 2:30pm
2012
Salute to Vienna, Hamilton Place
Morris performs with the members of the Canadian Opera Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for the annual “Salute to Vienna concert.” Bring your waltzing shoes and see you there..!
December 30th, 2012
PASIC 2012, Austin, TX
Back at PASIC once again. Excited to see and hang with many friends. Hope to see you there…
October 31st – November 3rd, 2012
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
John Cage Lecture on the Weather performance
October 27th, 2012
Royal College of Music, London, UK
Morris is excited to visit, coach, and teach at the famed RCM, UK
October 15th/16th, 2012
Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, NL
Morris returns to Holland for masterclasses and lectures at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague
and to be a part of the Dutch premiere of Inuksuit by John Luther Adams. Old stomping ground…
October 1st – 10th, 2012
Technosonics Festival, University of Virginia
Morris will perform at the Technosonics Festival at UVA. Hosted by good friend Matthew Burtner, Morris is excited to get back to Charlottesville, VA and hang with old friends
September 13th -16th, 2012
Festival Internacional de Musica Erudita de Piracicaba, Brazil
Morris will travel to Sao Paulo then on to Piracicaba, Brazil to teach at the Festival Internacional de Musica Erudita de Piracicaba. Looking forward to this one. Finally, some warm weather and sunshine in my life. It’s been a long cold winter…
July 20th – 29th, 2012.
LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE
soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego, California
Sixth annual soundON Festival of Modern Music presented by San Diego New Music and NOISE. More details to come soon. Please visit festival website below:
June 14th – 16th, 2012
more information: SoundON Festival
Open Ears Festival, Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Morris will in residence at the Open Ears Festival with Ensemble 64.8 members. Morris will participate in a pre-concert talk regarding the music of John Luther Adams, a performance of Inuksuit, and solo performances of Toucher and Broken Drum. Great event, and good fun
Thursday, May 10th – Sunday, May 13th, 2012
more information: Open Ears Festival
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Morris and Ensemble 64.8 perform at Toronto’s Music Gallery. Great to be home. Works will include Reich’s Mallet Quartet, and John Luther Adams’ …and dust rising…, and Drums of Winter. Morris will also perform Ferneyhough’s Bone Alphabet. Last chance to hear Morris, along with grads Fiona, Eric, and Kaylee. It’s going to awesome. You should definitely come…
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Percussive Arts Society, Alaska Day of Percussion
University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, Saturday, April 7th
An event not to be missed! Percussive Arts Society, Alaska “Day of Percussion” is proud to present famed marimbist, Casey Cangelosi
Other guests include Ensemble 64.8, Morris Palter drum kit clinic, Lathrop Taiko Group, West Valley High School, North Pole High School, and Cold Steel. This promises to be a monumental day of percussion in Alaska!
Saturday April 10th, 2010, All Day
UAF New Music Festival
Fri/Sat, February 3rd/4th, 2012
Two fabulous concerts featuring some of UAF’s brightest and best students, faculty, and a guest artist concert by famed contra-bassist and UCSD faculty member, Mark Dresser
Friday – Faculty and student performers
Saturday – Mark Dresser contra-bass recital, 8pm
All concerts at 8pm in Davis Concert Hall,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2011
Ensemble 64.8 fall concert featuring Lorna Eder (piano)
Ensemble 64.8 keeps at it with another stellar evening of live percussion chamber works. Pieces by Steve Reich, Bob Becker, and John Cage with special guest pianist, Lorna Eder
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN
Morris will be in Indianapolis at the 2011 PASIC. This year, I am excited to perform Vinko Globokar’s Toucher on Focus Day, and sit on a panel with Al Otte, Chris Shultis, and Stuart Saunders Smith. Moderated by Bill Sallak. Looking forward to hanging with old friends. Really wish you would have been there. Much love.
Wednesday November 9th – Saturday November 12th, 2011
more information: PASIC 2011
“The Arctic Connection” – Ensemble 64.8/Ensemble Evolution
UAF Davis Concert Hall, 8pm
Ensemble 64.8 performs with the Sweden-based group, Ensemble Evolution. Special guests Anders Astrand and Daniel Saur. Great night of percussion!
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
“Strange and Sacred Noise” documentary film, Alaska premiere
UAF Davis Concert Hall
Ensemble 64.8 performs at the Alaska premiere of Len Kammerling’s documentary film “Strange and Sacred Noise.” John Luther Adams, Morris Palter, and Len Kammerling give pre-film talk followed by a performance by Ensemble 64.8
Saturday September 24th, 2011
Morris Palter, Faculty – “Roots and Rhizomes” percussion residency program
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, Canada
Morris will be guest faculty along with Bob Becker and Steven Schick (program director) at the beautiful Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. More information to follow
Program dates – August 14th – 21st, 2011
Alaska Midnight Sun Chamber Percussion Intensive, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
The AMSCPI features faculty members Bob Becker and Morris Palter working with advanced undergraduate/graduate and professional percussionists during the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Daily rehearsals and seminars culminating in a showcase concert at the FSAF
Monday July 18th – 23rd, 2011
soundON Festival of Modern Music
San Diego
Fifth Anniversary soundON Festival of Modern Music presented by San Diego New Music and NOISE.Guests composers this year include Thomas DeLio and Matthew Burtner, and of course, NOISE’s own resident composer, Christopher Adler. Please visit the link below for full festival details!
June 18th-20th, 2011
more information: SoundON Festival
Ensemble 64.8, Charles W. Davis Concert Hall, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ensemble 64.8 performs their spring semester concert at UAF. Works by Iannis Xenakis, Mark FOrd, Alfred Schnittke, John Luther Adams, James Romig. Come on out!
Thursday April 21st, 2011
Ensemble 64.8, Percussion Repertoire Festival – Pitea, Sweden
Morris and the members of Ensemble 64.8 will be in residence at the Institution of Music and Media of Lulea Technical University working with Anders Logan and members of Ensemble Evolution
Thursday, March 16th-19th, 2011.
Ensemble 64.8, Stockholm, Sweden
Morris and the members of Ensemble 64.8 perform at the Kroumata Theatre with Anders Astrand and Ensemble Evolution
Sunday, March 19th, 2011.
Morris Palter, Faculty Recital
Morris performs another great solo concert in Davis Concert Hall at UAF. Works will include “Rebonds” and “Dmaathen” (with Jun Watabe) by Iannis Xenakis, “Vocalise” and “In” by Christopher Tonkin, “Fragments II” by Jean-Charles Francois, and “Sunset Bell” by Gary Burton
Thursday, March 10th, 2011, Davis Concert Hall, UAF
Armory on the Park, NYC
A concert including Morris Palter, Eighth Blackbird, redfish bluefish, and Doug Perkins featuring the music of John Luther Adams
Sunday, February 20th, Armory on the Park (Park Avenue and 66th)
Sonic Diasporas Alumni Concert (redfish bluefish reunion concert, NOISE), UCSD
redfish bluefish celebrates their 20th year anniversary with an alumni concert of “Drumming” by Steve Reich. NOISE ensemble also performs
Thursday, January 20th – Saturday, January 22nd, 2011, CMPC Concert Hall, UCSD
UAF New Music Festival
Thursday-Saturday, February 3rd – 5th, 2011
Three days of fabulous concerts featuring some of UAF’s brightest and best students, faculty, and a guest artist concert by famed pianist and UCSD faculty member, Aleck Karis
Thursday – Student performers and composers
Friday – Faculty and student performers
Saturday – Aleck Karis solo piano recital, 8pm
All concerts at 8pm in Davis Concert Hall, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2010
Ensemble 64.8, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ensemble 64.8 performs their fall concert at UAF. Works include Mon Ombre by Bruce Mather, THREE QUARTETS for Drums by James Tenney, Ostinato Pianissimo by Henry Cowell, and Australian works Little Waltz by Timothy Constable and Concerto for Piano and Percussion by Erik Griswold
Saturday, November 20th 2010, Davis Concert Hall
Ensemble 64.8, PASIC Focus Day of Percussion, Indianapolis, IN
Ensemble 64.8 performs two of six percussion quintets composed by Matthew Burtner on Focus Day at the 2010 PASIC. Awesome pieces! Be sure to come check it out. Morris Palter is host and director of Focus Day, 2010
Wednesday, November 10th and Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Noise (San Diego New Music), Chihuahua International Festival, Mexico
Morris performs with his colleagues in NOISE at the Chihuahua International Festival in Mexico. Performances of works from Burns, Adler, Burtner, Boquiren, and Menzies. Looking forward to getting south of the border
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
CrossSounds Festival, “The Oort Cloud” featuring Wu Man
Morris performs at the CrossSounds Festival in Anchorage and Juneau with famed pipa player, Wu Man (Silk Road Ensemble). Works by Kojima, Kim, Obermuller, and Park. Hope to see some of you there!
June 30th, Anchorage and July 1st, Juneau
Ensemble 64.8, Sunday, May 16th, UAF Commencement Ceremony
Carlson Center, Fairbanks
Ensemble 64.8 performs at the UAC Commencement Ceremony, 2010 at the Carlson Center. Look for us at the back of the auditorium on the floor
Sunday, May 16th, Carlson Center
Ensemble 64.8, Thursday, April 29th, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ensemble 64.8 performs another challenging concert of chamber music including David Lang’s work, So Called Laws of Nature, and the Alaskan premieres of Matthew Burtner’s newly composed series of percussion quintets from the opera, Auksalaq. This is going to be a special evening of percussion music
Thursday, April 29th, Davis Concert Hall. Tickets are $5/$10
Intermedia Festival, April 23-25th, Indianapolis, IN
Ensemble 64.8 (Director, Morris Palter) will be in residence at the Intermedia Festival, held in Indianapolis at Indiana University/Perdue University of Indianapolis. Many of the leading telematic artists will be performing including Pamela Z, R. Luke DuBois, and Matthew Burtner. Instrumentalists include Stephen Drury and Bora Yoon
Percussive Arts Society, Alaska Day of Percussion, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
Saturday, April 10th
An event not to be missed! Percussive Arts Society, Alaska “Day of Percussion” is proud to present famed percussionists and clinicians, Jeffrey Moore and Kirk Gay
Active in all facets of percussion, Jeff has performed with several major symphony orchestras and is a frequent performer of chamber music. He also performs on drum set, and is an international clinician, lecturer, and soloist. He is a contributing author to the third edition of Teaching Percussion by Gary Cook and has published a method book and CD package entitled Drumstick Control. He also serves as an Associate Editor of Percussive Notes, the Percussive Arts Society’s scholarly journal. Jeff has served as the Percussion Director of the internationally acclaimed Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, and as Program Consultant/Percussion Arranger with several European, Japanese, Thai, and Indonesian drum corps and bands. Jeff is a Yamaha Performing Artist/Clinician, and endorses Paiste cymbal, sounds, and gongs. He endorses Pro-Mark sticks and mallets, and has three signature model sticks, seven keyboard mallet models and a custom designed practice pad. Professor Moore also endorses Remo Drum Heads and Latin Percussion.
Other guests include Ensemble 64.8, Mariko Kinikin from Wasilla, Trevor Saint, and Cold Steel (Fairbanks Steel Pan group). Stayed tuned for the finalized line-up and schedule. This promises to be a monumental day of percussion in Alaska!
Saturday April 10th, 2010, All Day
Sixth Annual Creativity Salon Party, Anchorage, AK
Morris performs a series of works down in Anchorage including Toucher by Vinko Globokar, Temazcal by Javier Alvarez, and Broken Drum by Matthew Burtner.
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010, 6:30pm
Alaskan Voices: A Confluence of Cultures, Fairbanks, AK
Morris Palter (Director) and Ensemble 64.8 perform as a part of the Collaborative Arts concert at UAF. A great night of music including works by John Luther Adams.
Wednesday, March 23rd, Davis Concert Hall, UAF, 8:15pm
UAF New Music Festival
Thursday-Saturday, February 4th-6th, 2010
Three days of fabulous concerts featuring some of UAF’s brightest and best students, faculty, and a guest artist concert by noted violinist/violist, Mark Menzies
Thursday – Student performers and composers
Friday – Faculty performers and composers and a second half performance of Terry Riley’s work, In C
Saturday – Mark Menzies solo violin recital (Faculy, CalArts), 8pm
All concerts at 8pm in Davis Concert Hall, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2009
Ensemble 64.8, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Morris Palter (Director) and Ensemble 64.8 perform their fall concert. Works include I Riti: Ritual March, “Death of Achilles” by Giacinto Scelsi, Amores and Credo in Us by John Cage, Toccata by Carlos Chavez, and two works by Fairbanks’ own, John Luther Adams. A great night of percussion music by UAF’s premiere performing ensemble.
Saturday, November 21st, Davis Concert Hall, UAF, 8pm
Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN
Morris will be in Indianapolis at the 2009 PASIC. Always a great time hanging out with friends and meeting new ones. This year promises to be as good as any! Morris will be adjudicating the Multiple-Percussion soloists competition. Based on many of the recordings heard in the first round, there will be fantastic performers at the finals. Be sure to come out and supports some great multi-percussion playing!
Wednesday November 11th-Saturday November 14th
more information: PASIC 2009
Arctic Chamber Orchestra, Fairbanks, AK
Morris performs Conjurer by John Corigliano, Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra with the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. Davis Concert Hall, University of Alaska Fairbanks. You will love this concert!
Sunday October 4th, 2009
more information: Arctic Chamber Orchestra
Refugium/CrossSound Festival
Morris performs in Anchorage at the2009 Refugium/CrossSound concert with Matthew Burtner and Jaunelle Celaire. Works featured on the concert include Burtner’s Kuik Aria, Mindcam, and Portals of Distortion.
Sunday September 6th, 2009
more information: Refugium/CrossSound
Tura New Music & University of Western Australia, Perth
Local composers and performers Jonathan Mustard, Chris Tonkin, and Lindsay Vickery join with visiting Canadian percussionist Morris Palter to present a series of solo instrumental works with live computer sound processing, video and multi-channel surround sound diffusion. The focus of the program is works that explore ideas associated with physical space or place. Such notions are explored in various ways: in the mapping of audio signal to visual gesture (video image) in Mustard’s Pizz., the evocation of real or imagined environments as in Saariaho’s Six Japanese Gardens or the creation of spatial gesture in Vickery’s and Tonkin’s works through movement of sound through the six loudspeakers that surround the audience space. Presented as part of the University Music Society’s Artistry! Series.
Morris will also present a master-class for percussionists at the University of Western Australia.
Saturday 15 August, 7:30pm
Octagon Theatre, University of Western Australia
soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego
Third annual NOISE (San Diego New Music) soundON Festival of Modern Music
Guests composers this year include Stuart Saunders Smith, Christopher Burns, Nathan Brock, and of course, NOISE’s own resident composer, Christopher Adler. Please visit the link below for full festival details!
June 18th-20th, 2009
more information: SoundON Festival
Ensemble 64.8 performs the music of Iannis Xenakis
Morris directs Ensemble 64.8 in a concert featuring many of the seminal percussion works of Iannis Xenakis. Works performed include Okho, Rebonds, Psappha, Dmaathen, and the sextet masterpiece, Persephassa! Guest flutist Jessica Schmitz will perform Dmaathen with Morris. Jessica is a contemporary music specialist currently residing in NYC. You will not want to miss this one…
Thursday April 30th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music,
$10/$5/FREE for 12 and under
more information: UAF Music Department
University of Central Florida
Morris heads to Orlando and visits with famed percussionist Jeffrey Moore and the percussion class at UCF. Morris will perform a solo concert on March 3rd, as well as head a master-class, and hang with the percussion class! Looking forward to it!
Monday March 2nd-Wednesday March 4th, 2009, concert March 3rd, 5:30pm!
more information: University of Central Florida<a/a>
Fort Greely, Alaska – Black History Month Celebration!
Morris heads to famous Fort Greely with Ensemble 64.8 to help celebrate Black History month. Fort Greely is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles located approximately 100 miles southeast of Fairbanks. It is also the home of the Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC), as Fort Greely is one of the coldest areas in Alaska, and can accommodate cold, extreme cold, or temperate weather tests depending on the season. This is a first! Works performed will include numermous Ghanaian hand drumming pieces, solo gyil, and Bob Becker’s Away Without Leave (I couldn’t resist..!)
Thursday February 26th, 1pm
University of Alaska Fairbanks, New Music Festival, February 5th-7th, 2009
Morris Palter, Artistic Director
Morris directs three great nights of contemporary music at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Special guest includes flutist and performance artist Kathleen Gallagher. Other guests include Ensemble 64.8, and the UAF Flute Ensemble.
Thursday February 5th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, FREE!
Opening night of the festival featuring UAF student composers and performers. This is always a great chance to hear cutting edge performances by some of UAF’s most talented music students. Always highly entertaining!
Friday February 6th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, $5/$10
Tonight’s concert will feature UAF Music Faculty including Professor’s James Bicigo, Karen Gustafson, Kathey Butler-Hopkins, John Hopkins, Eduard Zilberkant, Morris Palter, Jaunelle Celaire, Dorli McWayne, Karl Knapp, and George Radlinski. Works include Stravinsky’s seminal L’Histoire du Soldat, as well as works by Chinary Ung, and George Crumb, among others! You’ll love it!
Saturday February 7th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, $5/$10
Tonight’s concert will feature guest artists Kathleen Gallagher. California based-Australian flutist and performance artist will entertain us with contemporary works for flute and theatre. Always exciting to watch, Gallagher will leave you wanting more!
Ensemble 64.8, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Morris directs Ensemble 64.8 in an all Iannis Xenakis Tribute concert! Works featured include Okho (for three djembe drums), solo works Rebonds and Psappha, duo work Dmaathen (featuring New York flute virtuoso Jessica Schmitz), and the seminal percussion sextet, Persephassa! This is one concert you will not want to miss!
Thursday April 30th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music
$10/FREE for 12 and under
more information: UAF Music Department
2008
Ensemble 64.8 with Bob Becker, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Morris directs Ensemble 64.8 in a concert featuring Bob Becker and his compositions. Works include Prisoners From The Image Factory, Mudra, Away Without Leave, Turning Point, and a selection of rags. Bob will also play a few solo works!
Monday December 1st, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music
$10/FREE for 12 and under
more information: UAF Music Department
Percussive Arts Society International Convention, 2008, Austin, TX
Morris performs once again on the PAS Focus Day. Morris will be premiering a new work from composer Christopher Tonkin (University of Western Australia) for djembe and Max/MSP. Morris will also appear with Scott Deal (live) and Matthew Burtner (via Internet2). Morris has been named the Artistic Director of the 2010 PAS Focus Day occurring in Indianapolis, IN.
PASIC 2008, November 5th – 8th, 2008
more information: Percussive Arts Society
Ear to the Earth Festival, New York, NY
Morris and Matthew meet for another great concert in NYC!
Works include: Mists, Delta 3, Windsketches, and two new works Denali Tactics and Shanendoah Tactics.
Chelsea Art Museum, Manhattan, NYC
Metasax&DRUMthings
October 21st, 2008, 8pm
more information: Ear to the Earth Festival
Quincena Musical Donostia Festival, Kursaal Concert Hall, San Sebastian, Spain
Morris performs a solo recital in the contemporary music all in beautiful San Sebastian, Spain. Works will include Zyklus, Bone Alphabet, ?Corporel, and a new commission by Isabel Urrutia.
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Friday August 29th, 2008, 8pm
more information: Kursaal Concert Hall
Speak-Easy Duo, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
Morris performs at the famous FSAF. Guests included Valerie Naranjo and many others. The Speak-Easy Duo performs on the closing night concert and Morris also performs with the Summer Arts Festival Orchestra. A great summer festival under the Northern Lights! Stay tuned for updates regarding more featured artists and concerts!
July 13th – 27th, 2008
more information: Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
***LIVE SPEAK-EASY DUO VIDEO!***
Strange and Sacred Noise, Fairbanks, AK
An outdoor concert and movie of the seminal John Luther Adams famed percussion quartet, Strange and Sacred Noise. Performers include Morris Palter, Steven Schick, Rob Esler, Doug Perkins, and Lisa Tolentino.
Friday and Saturday, June 28th, 29th, 2008
SoundON Festival, San Diego
Second annual NOISE (San Diego New Music) Festival of New Music!
Please visit the link below for full festival details!
June 19th-21st, 2008
more information: SoundON Festival
EMF Festival, New York City
Morris returns once again to New York City! MetasaxDRUMthings performs newly composed works and structured improvisation utilizing ambient pulse-based sound art, sensor -based gestural technologies, real-time signal processing, and lots of computers, drumming and sax playing!
Tuesday May 20th, 2007, 8pm
more information: EMF Festival
Ensemble 64.8, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Morris directs Ensemble 64.8 for the spring concert. Works include Third Construction by John Cage, Part I of Drumming, Raintree by Takemitsu, among others.
Thursday May 1st, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music
$5/FREE for 12 and under
more information: UAF Music Department
Internet2 – University of Alaska Fairbanks, IUPUI, Northern Illinois University
Cutting edge technology has Morris performing a trio piece (How Long is the Coast of France – Jordan Munson) with percussionists Scott Deal (IUPUI) and Greg Beyer (NIU). They will perform together via the internet. That’s crazy talk!
April 22, 2008, 3pm
Metasax/DRUMthings, New York City, Monkey Town
Matthew Burtner & Friends
58 North 3rd Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Located between Kent and Wythe
Tickets are $10 and available online or at the door
Four Screens, Communal Setting, 6.1 Surround Sound, Intimate Capacity: 32
March 9th, 2008, 8pm
Haleh Abhari – voice, bowed crotales, stones, squeaky toys, metals
Morris Palter – percussion (including squeaky toys, stones, Yupik drum, drum kit, bells)
Michael Straus – alto sax, bowed crotales, stones, squeaky toys, metals
Matthew Burtner – metasax, soprano sax, spoken voice, struck bells, stones
Ted Coffey – laptop, spoken voice, struck bells, stones, squeaky toys, metals
PROGRAM
Prismic Generations [percussion, struck/bowed pitched instruments, computer, video] (2003)
Mists [stone ensemble, noise] (1995)
SXueAk [squeaky toys, saxophone, computer] (2007)
Swinge by Ted Coffey (2008)
Kuik [voice, percussion, narrator, video, computer] (2006)
Ted Coffey + Metasax&DRUMthings (2008)
(dis)Locations [alto sax, tenor sax, video, computer] (2007)
Mindcam [snowboard video, percussion, metasax] (2007)
That which is bodiless is reflected in bodies [soprano sax, metal percussion, computer] (2004)
more information: Metasax/DRUMthings
Solo Tour 2008, University of Maryland, College Park
Morris visits composer Thomas DeLio and the percussion class at UMCP. Morris will perform a solo concert on March 6th and hang with the percussion class! More dates will be confirmed shortly, so be sure to stay posted!
Thursday March 6th, 2008, 8pm
more information: UMCP Concerts
University of Alaska Fairbanks, New Music Festival, February 7th-9th, 2008
Morris Palter, Artistic Director
Morris directs three great nights of contemporary music at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Special guests include Christopher Adler and Matthew Burtner. Other guests include Ensemble 64.8, the UAF Flute Ensemble, the Pangea String Quartet from NYC, and UAF faculty cellist Minna Rose Chung.
more information: UAF Music Department
Thursday February 7th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, FREE!
Opening night of the festival featuring UAF faculty and student composers and performers including Professor James Bicigo, John Nichols, Davy Anderson, the Pangea String Quartet, and Professor Dorli McWayne.
Friday February 8th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, $5/$10
Tonight’s concert will feature University of San Diego composer/pianist/khaen player, Christopher Adler. Featured works included his String Quartet No. I and his percussion sextet and solo work, Signals Intelligence. Christopher will also perform John Luther Adams seminal work Red Arc/Blue Veil with UAF graduate percussionist Davy Anderson. Adler will also perform solo works for the Khaen. Guest artists include percussionists Don Nichols and Alex Harmon. This promises to be a fantastic night of music!
Saturday February 9th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, $5/$10
Tonight’s concert will feature University of Virginia composer/metasax inventor, Matthew Burtner. Works will included Burtner’s percussion and tape solo, Broken Drum, as well as his ensemble work Prismic Generations. Burtner will also perform original works for metasax and video composition. Guests include Ensemble 64.8, Jaunelle Celaire, Minna Rose Chung, Davy Anderson, Metasax/DRUMthings, and John Nichols. Another great concert of contemporary music!
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Faculty Recital
Morris performs his first faculty recital at UAF. Works to include Zyklus by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toucher by Vinko Globokar, Second Language by Chris Burns, XY by Michael Gordon, Bone Alphabet by Brian Ferneyhough, and a selection of novelty ragtime tunes by G.H. Green.
Thursday January 31st, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music, FREE
more information: UAF Music Department
2007
Ensemble 64.8, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Morris will direct his first UAF Ensemble 64.8 concert. Programmed works include Marubatoo by John Wyre, Worker’s Union by Louis Andriessen, Mudra by Bob Becker, Toucher by Vinko Globokar, a selection of novelty ragtime tunes, as well as a performance by the UAF Hand Drumming Ensemble directed by Davy Anderson. Free for UAF music students.
Thursday December 6th, 8pm, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Department of Music
$5 General Admission, FREE for 12 and under
more information: UAF Music Department
Percussive Arts Society International Convention, 2007, Columbus, OH
Morris takes part in a panel discussion curated by Oberlin Conservatory of Music percussion head, Michael Rosen. The topic of the discussion is “A Percussion Degree: Preparation for Life.” The session will take place on November 2 at 10 am to 10:50 am in Convention Center Room C216. Panel members include Keith Aleo- Industry, Hudie Broughton- Business (Merrill-Lynch), Ruth Cahn- High School/Middle School Education, Jan Pustjens- Europe, and Presider Larry Snider.
PASIC 2007, October 31 – November 3rd, 2007
more information: Percussive Arts Society
Metasax/DRUMthings with Evan Ziporyn, New York City, The Stone
Metasax/DRUMthings will be performing their first NYC gig, sharing the bill with acclaimed Bang On a Can member Evan Ziporyn. This concert will take place at John Zorn’s venue, The Stone. MetasaxDRUMthings performs newly composed works and structured improvisation utilizing ambient pulse-based sound art, sensor -based gestural technologies, real-time signal processing, and lots of computers, drumming and sax playing!
Thursday October 11th, 2007, 8pm
more information: The Stone
and Metasax/DRUMthings
Metasax/DRUMthings, New York City, The Stone
Metasax/DRUMthings will be performing a second night at The Stone incorporating video and voice into their duo concert. MetasaxDRUMthings performs newly composed works and structured improvisation utilizing ambient pulse-based sound art, sensor -based gestural technologies, real-time signal processing, and lots of computers, drumming and sax playing!
Wednesday October 10th, 2007, 8pm
more information: The Stone
and Metasax/DRUMthings
Metasax/DRUMthings, Seattle, EVO
Metasax/DRUMthings provides the music for the latest ThinkThank movie premiere, “Thanks Brain.” Lots of pro-snowboarding goodness! MSDT will be playing on the film release party at the Evo warehouse store in Seattle located at 122 NW 36th St, Seattle, 98107.
Saturday September 22nd, 2007, 8pm
more information: EVO
and Metasax/DRUMthings
SoundON Festival
First annual NOISE (San Diego New Music) Festival of New Music!
Featuring winning works of NOISE’s first annual call for scores, by Moiya Callahan, Edward Top, Bill Ryan, and Orlando Jacinto Garcia. The festival includes a community performance workship with works by John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, and NOISE performing works by Christopher Adler, Roberto Gerhard, Morton Feldman, Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Steve Reich, Tom Johnson, special guests, and more!
June 14-17, 2007
more information: San Diego New Music Festival
Metasax/DRUMthings, San Diego, CA, Apa Dance Studios
Metasax/DRUMthings is excited to perform their first American concert at the Apa Dance Studios in San Diego, California. This concert will feature McCaleb Dance Company dancer, Elizabeth Swallow. MetasaxDRUMthings performs newly composed works and structured improvisation utilizing ambient pulse-based sound art, sensor -based gestural technologies, real-time signal processing, and lots of computers, drumming and sax playing.
Friday May 25th, Saturday May 26th, 8pm
more information: Apa Studios
and Metasax/DRUMthings
Breda Jazz Festival, Breda, The Netherlands
Morris will be returning to The Netherlands to perform at the Internationally renouned Breda Jazz Festival. Surrounded by blooming tulips, canals and windmills, this festival is recognized as one of Europe’s finest!
May 17th, Saturday May 20th, Breda, NL
more information: Breda Jazz Festival
Solo Tour 2007, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Morris visits Michael Rosen and the Oberlin Conservatory on his solo tour. Morris will perform a solo concert on April 19th and hang with the percussion class! More dates will be confirmed shortly, so be sure to stay posted!
Thursday April 19th, 2007
more information: tba
Solo Tour 2007, The University of Kentucky
Morris visits UK on his solo tour. Morris will perform a solo concert on April 11th, and conduct a master-class with UK percussionists on the 12th. More dates will be confirmed shortly, so be sure to stay posted!
Wednesday April 11th – Thursday 12th, 2007
more information: tba
Speak-Easy Duo, Bohém Ragtime and Jazz Festival
The Speak-Easy Duo performs at the prestigious Bohém Ragtime and Jazz Festival in Kecskemet, Hungary. Five nights of incredible music.
March 20th – 25th, Kecskemet, Hungary
more information: Bohém Ragtime and Jazz Festival
Speak-Easy Duo, UCSD
The Speak-Easy Duo performs a free concert at the University of California, San Diego’s Extension Office.
Friday March 9, 2007
more information: UCSD Extension
NOISE, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Noise (San Diego New Music) will be in residence at UWM from February 14th-17th. NOISE will participate in heading individual master-classes for UWM performance students, as well a perform a concert, and work with composition majors. Look-out Mid-West!
Wednesday February 14th- Saturday February 17th, 2007
more information: NOISE at UWM
Solo Tour 2007, Arizona State University
Morris visits with head of percussion JB Smith and ASU percussionists on his solo tour. Morris will perform a solo concert on February 2nd and also work with the ASU percussion ensemble. A great couple of days of percussion at ASU!
Thursday February 1st and Friday February 2nd, 2007
more information: tba
NOISE
Noise (San Diego New Music) will be performing their first concert of the new year at the La Jolla Athenaeum. The classic graphic-score composition December, 1952 by Earle Brown sets the stage for three open form works from the late 1970’s, Michael Nyman’s Bell Set No. 1, a minimalist take on church bell change-ringing, John Cage’s Inlets for amplified conch shells, and Stuart Saunders Smith’s deconstructed pop song Notebook.
Two works by celebrated composer and Bang On A Can clarinetist Evan Ziporyn bring a cross-cultural perspective to the evocation of the natural world through music: Fragrant Forest from the Balinese-inspired Pondok suite for solo piano, and the brand-new virtuoso flute solo Speak At-man! meant to evoke the Hindu universal consciousness ‘atman’.
Rounding out the program is Charles Amirkhanian’s raucous text-sound composition Church Car and Alvin Lucier’s meditative Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra for solo percussion.
Sunday January 28th, 2007, La Jolla Athenaeum, 3pm/pre-concert talk 2:30pm
more information: NOISE
2006
Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF), Jayu Theatre, Seoul Arts Center
Morris travels to Korea to perform Chris Tonkin’s work <<IN>> for solo bass drum and real-time processed electronics. The festival lasts for three days and promises to showcase many new and interesting electro-acoustic works.
Thursday November 23rd – 26th, Seoul, Korea
more information: SICMF
Orange County Ragfest, Orange County, California
Morris performs once more at the always entertaining OC ragtime festival. Half a dozen venues and a hotbed of great entertainment! This year will feature the ever popular Carl-Sonny Leyland, Ian Whitcomb, Patrick Aranda, and Nan Bostick. Fun fun fun! See you there!
Saturday October 21st/Sunday October 22nd, Orange County, California
more information: OC Ragfest
Metasax/DRUMthings, Toronto, Canada, The Music Gallery
Metasax/DRUMthings is excited to perform their first Canadian concert as a part of the 2006/07 Toronto Music Gallery concert series. This concert will feature newly composed works, structured improvisation, ambient pulse-based sound art, sensor -based gestural technologies, real-time signal processing, lots of computers, drumming and sax playing. There is something there for every music fan!
Saturday October 14th, 2006, 8pm
more information: The Music Gallery
and Metasax/DRUMthings
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Morris returns to the Music Gallery to perform a solo recital of works including Bone Alphabet by Brian Ferneyhough, Toucher by Vinko Globokar, and a new work from Canadian percussionist/composer Mark Duggan.
Friday October 13th, 2006, 8pm
more information: Music Gallery
Metasax/DRUMthings, Opa Bastille, Paris, FR
A show of percussion and metasaxophone featuring Morris Palter and Matthew Burtner. Together they explore the use of human-computer rhythms and cyborgian signal processing. From structured, experimental works including Mists for noise and stones, Broken Drum for brake drum and computer, and SXrAtch for metasax, to free improvisation with rhythmic signal processing machines, to ambient pulse-based sound art, Metasax and drumThings creates a varied show merging intense polyrhythms, processed horns and sensor-based gestural technologies.
June 6th, 2006, Paris, FR
more information: Opa Bastille
and Metasax/DRUMthings
SoundaXis Festival, Toronto, Canada, June 1st -June 12th.
Eleven nights of great music from the seminal composer Iannis Xenakis. Morris performs the rare Xenakis work Dmaathen with saxophonist Wallace Halladay, as well as Worker’s Union by Louis Andreissen on June 3rd, 12 noon at the Royal Ontario Museum, and again at the Music Gallery, 8pm. Both concerts also feature clarinetist Lori Freedman.
June 3rd, 2006, Toronto, Canada
more information: SoundaXis
La Jolla Historical Society Secret Gardens Tour
Morris performs a solo concert as a part of the La Jolla Historical Society’s Garden concert series. More details to follow…
Saturday May 20th, 2006, La Jolla, CA
more details: La Jolla Historical Society
Technology Concert, Warren Lecture Hall Studio A, UCSD
A concert of technology based works including the North American premiere of Chris Tonkin’s IRCAM residency piece <<IN>> for solo bass drum and real-time processing.
Friday May 12th, 06
more details: Technology Concert
NOISE
Featuring Three Friends of Winter, written by David Loeb for NOISE with Christopher Adler performing on the khaen, the bamboo free-reed mouth organ of Northeast Thailand. Also on the program are Alaskan composer John Luther Adams’ Red Arc / Blue Veil, Chen Yi’s Qi, and Michael Fiday’s 9 Haiku.
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006, La Jolla Athenaeum
3:00 p.m. / pre-concert talk at 2:30 p.m.
more information: NOISE
NOISE
“A-List” Event sponsored by The La Jolla Athenaeum
Includes Philip Glass’s Music in Fifths, khaen solos by Christopher Adler and David Loeb, xylophone ragtime by George Hamilton Green, the Bone Alphabet, and more.
March 30th, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
4441 Park Blvd., Hillcrest / North Park area
more information: NOISE
Internet2 Day at the University of Alaska Fairbanks : From the North to the Future…
Cutting edge technology has Morris performing a duo piece with percussionist Scott Deal. Scott will be in Alaska and Morris at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. They will perform together via the internet. Other perfomers include members of the New World Symphony, and Ian Bousfield, the principle trombonist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
March 23rd, 2006, University of Southern California, 5pm
more information: Internet2 at UAF
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Morris will be doing a week long residency at UAF leading master-classes with Scott Deal, and performing a solo concert. Works will include Brian Ferneyhough’s Bone Alphabet, Vinko Globokar’s Corporel?, Matthew Burtner’s Broken Drum, Michael Gordon’s XY, and Javier Alvarez’s Temazcal.
March 8-14th, 2006, concert Thursday March 9th.
more information: University of Alaska Fairbanks
NOISE
The first NOISE concert of 2006 featuring works by Ferneyhough, Glass, and NOISE’s own Chris Adler. Another great concert by San Diego’s finest new music group!
Sunday January 22th, 2006, The Athenaeum, 7:30pm, pre-concert talk at 7pm
more information: NOISE
2005
Speak-Easy Duo, La Jolla Playhouse, UCSD Chancellor’s Event
The Speak-Easy Duo performs a high-octane event at the world famous La Jolla Playhouse for the fine patrons of the La Jolla Playhouse.
December 8th, 2005, La Jolla Playhouse, 6pm.
Speak-Easy Duo, West Coast Ragtime Festival, Sacramento, CA
You won’t want to miss the premiere ragtime festival on the west coast! All your favorites will be there including Virginia Tichenor, Tom Brier, Morris Palter, and a great group all the way from Hungary! There are six venues, all with live music for four straight days. Unbelievable!!!
Get your tickets asap. They’re going fast!
November 18-20th, 2005, Red Lion Hotel
more information: West Coast Ragtime Festival
Percussive Arts Society International Convention 2005, Columbus, OH
Guest soloist, Focus Day. Performance of Matthew Burtner’s work Broken Drum.
November 2-5th, 2005
more information: PASIC 2005
NOISE
The first NOISE concert of the season featuring famed east coast oboist Jackie LeClair. The concert will feature newly commissioned works, as well as featured oboe pieces. It’s going to be great!
October 23rd, 2005
more information: NOISE
A Scottish Play, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA
Morris will be providing all of the live music for a four week run of A Scottish Play at the famous La Jolla Playhouse. Eight shows per week from September 20th until October 23rd. Check link for details!!
September 20th -October 23rd, 2005
more information: La Jolla Playhouse
Quincena Music Festival, Kursaal Concert Hall, San Sebastian, Spain
Performance of a new work by composer Matthew Burtner, as well as his work Broken Drum.
August 23rd, 2005, 8pm
more information: Matthew Burtner
Speak-Easy Duo, Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, Sutter Creek, CA
Come see the 7th Annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival in historic downtown Sutter Creek. Five Separate venues over the course of three days will feature the likes of Morris Palter, Nan Bostick, Tom Brier, and Carl Sonny-Leyland! Crazy! Get your tickets now…
August 12th – 14th, 2005
more information: Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival
redfish bluefish goes to the theatre…
UCSD revisits ‘the shock of the new’, navigating turbulent and challenging artistic waters as the Department of Theatre and Dance joins with the Department of Music in a blaze of creative synergy in red fish blue fish goes to the theatre, a collaborative performance of music, text and movement.
June 3rd and 4th, 2005
more information: redfish bluefish
Speak-Easy Duo, Spring Festival of Music, UCSD
The Speak-Easy Duo plays a rare San Diego gig. Be sure to come check it out. It’s free! Come to the Warren Music Building, Studio A to see the Morris and Colin play all your favorites!
May 20th, 2005, 8pm
more information: UCSD Music
SONOR , Studio A, Warren Music Building, UCSD
Another stellar Sonor concert featuring works by Chaya Czernowin and Rand Steiger, as well as the percussion masterpiece Ionisation (1931). We may even play it twice!
May 18th, 2005, 8pm
more information: UCSD Music
redfish bluefish w/Evelyn Glennie, Disney Hall, Los Angeles, CA
redfish bluefish performs with Evelyn Glennie at the new Disney Hall. Works included on the program are Mudra by Bob Becker, The So-Called Laws of Nature by David Lang, and Ngoya Marimbas by Steve Reich.
May 9th, 2005, 8pm
more information: LA Philharmonic
NOISE at the Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
The final NOISE concert of the season. Works include George Crumb’s Voice of the Whale, a new commissioned work by Sidney Boquiren, and Chris Burn’s Misprison. Tickets available at the La Jolla Athenaeum by calling, or visiting the Athenaeum at the corner or Wall and Girard dowtown La Jolla
May 1st, 2005, 7:30pm
more information: NOISE
Pacific Rim Music Festival 2005 – University of California, Santa Cruz
The New and Traditional Pacific Rim Music Festival at UCSC is a week-long festival and includes performances by NOISE, Pauline Oliveros, William Winant, the Terry Riley All-Stars, the Kronos Quartet, and Speculum Musicae.
April 29th-May 7th, 2005
more information: Pacific Rim Festival
redfish bluefish at the Third International Festival of Music and Musicology, University of Baja, Mexico
redfish bluefish performs David Lang’s The So Called Laws of Nature and Phillip Manoury’s entire Le Livre des Claviers.
April 12th, 2005, 8pm
VCCM Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts , Paris, France
A concert in conjunction with VCCM and Technosonics, sponsored by Cité Internationale des Arts and curated by composer Matthew Burtner. This concert features the commissioned work Broken Drum for solo brake drum and electronics, Prismic Generations for struck and bowed pitched instruments, video and computer sound, and Temazcal by Javier Alvarez.
March 25th, 2005, 8pm
more information: Paris Concert
B.E.A.S.T Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sonic Theatre, Birmingham, UK
Residency with composer Matthew Burtner at the University of Birmingham, UK. Works performed include Crush by Scott Wilson, Broken Drum by Matthew Burtner, ?Corporel by Vinko Golobokar, and Temazcal by Javier Alvarez.
March 21st-22nd, 2005
more information: B.E.A.S.T.
redfish bluefish, Mandeville Recital Hall, UCSD
Come see redfish bluefish perform a scintillating concert of percussion music including Les Livres des Claviers by new UCSD faculty member Phillip Manoury.
2/24/05, 8pm
more information: http://www.ucsd.edu/music
Museum of Contemporary Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
A new commissioned work from McCaleb Dance entitled Post and Lintel. Choreography by Eric Geiger, Music by Morris Palter
2/18-20/05, 8pm, 8pm, 6pm
more information: http://www.sdmart.org/calendar-dance-mccaleb.html
Palomar College, San Diego Main Campus
Ragtime and Beyond! Come see the acclaimed Speak-Easy Duo perform a noon hour concert at Palomar College. It’s free! What could be better?
2/03/05, 12:30pm
more information: http://www.palomar.edu/concerthour/
NOISE at the Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
Join NOISE for Minimalism and Beyond. This concert will include the seminal works Quartet for the End of Time by Oliver Messiaen, and Why Patterns? by Morten Feldman.
1/16/05, 8pm
more information: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/2293//NOISE.html
2004
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Solo recital of works including the World Premiere of Crush, a new work from Scott Wilson, XY by Michael Gordon, Broken Drum by Matthew Burtner, Fragments II by Jean-Charles François, and ?Corporel by Vinko Globokar
12/11/04, 8pm
more information: www.musicgallery.org
Percussive Arts Convention, Nashville, TN
Guest soloist concert and chamber concert with redfish bluefish (Artistic Director Steven Schick). Solo works include XY by Michael Gordon and wave/s by Thomas DeLio. Chamber works include Persephassa by Xenakis and the new Roger Reynolds quartet Oracle.
11/11/04
more information: www.pas.org
Kathleen Gallagher D.M.A Recital, UCSD
Solo flute recital including works by Ferneyhough, Finnissy, Eckhardt, Reich, and Noda. This concert will also feature dance and movement by Amy Suarez
10/4/04, 8pm, Mandeville Recial Hall
more information: www.ucsd.edu/music
La Jolla Music Society Summer Fest, La Jolla, CA
Guest solo artist and chamber artist (redfish bluefish)
8/14/04 and 8/20/04, Sherwood Auditorium
more information: http://www.kpbs.org/summerfest/biographies_2004/bio_palter.htm
Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival, Boulder, CO
Ragtime xylophone concert and lecture with guest Colin McAllister featuring the works of George Hamilton Green
7/15/04
more information: www.ragtimers.org
Erickson Hall, UCSD
World Premiere of Fear, Ego, Love, by Derek Keller
6/11/04
more information: www.derekkeller.com
The UCSD Spring Festival, San Diego, CA
Premiere performance of commissioned work Attitudes…assumptions shattered by Derek Keller
5/28/04, 8pm, Warren Music Building, Studio A
more information: www.ucsd.edu/music
Acousmania Festival, Bucharest, RO
Guest soloist and member of the Hyperion Ensemble
4/30/04 – 5/4/04
more information: http://acousmania2004.tripod.com/acousmania2004.html
DMA Final Recital, San Diego, CA
Solo concert including premiere of commissioned work Broken Drum by Matthew Burtner, XY by Michael Gordon, wave/s by Thomas DeLio, and Fragments II by Jean-Charles François
4/23/04, 8pm, Mandeville Recital Hall
NOISE (San Diego New Music), San Diego, CA
Concert of chamber work and solo works
4/18/04, 7:30pm, La Jolla Athenaeum
Alea II, Stanford University, CA
World Premiere solo performance of Le Barroquet by Yaron Sokolev
4/7/04, 8pm, Campbell Hall
Redfish Bluefish, University of San Diego, CA
Percussion concert. Works include world premiere of Signals Intelligence by Christopher Adler
4/3/04, 8pm
Redfish Bluefish, University of California, San Diego, CA
Percussion concert.
3/2/04, 8pm Mandeville Recital Hall
more information: www.ucsd.edu/music
2003
Stockhausen Festival, San Diego, CA
Artistic Director/Curator and performer of the works Kontakte and multiple versions of Refrain
10/3/03, 8pm, Warren Music Building, Studio A
more information: www.ucsd.edu/music
Agora Festival (IRCAM), Paris, France
Redfish bluefish (Artistic Director Steven Schick) concert of Drumming by Steve Reich
6/24/03, 8pm, Jarden de Tuillerie
more information: http://agora.ircam.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=9
La Jolla Symphony, San Diego, CA
Guest soloist. Performance of Tan Dunn’s Water Concerto
4/18/03, 8pm, Mandeville Auditorium
Auralia Composers Collective, Sound and Light Festival
Guest soloist
4/12/03
Ukiuq Tulugaq, The Winter Raven, Charlottesville, VI
Guest percussionist and section leader for The Winter Raven: A large scale multimedia electro/acoustic work,Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia
3/28/03
more information: www.burtner.net
Strictly Ballroom Concert and Guest Lectureship, Stanford University, CA
Solo concert, KARMA. Works include Zyklus by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tira Tike Dha by James Dillon, Temazcal by Javier Alvarez, and Corporel by Vinko Globokar
1/30/03
2002
Mandeville Center, San Diego, CA
North American Premiere of Roger Reynolds work The Angel of Death
4/02/02
Muzik III Festival, San Diego, CA
Artistic Director and Performer. Iannis Xenakis retrospective concert including Persephassa, Psappha, Okho, and Rebonds
4/02
University of Baja, Mexico
Artistic Director and Performer. Iannis Xenakis retrospective concert
04/02
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
Solo performance, clinic, and lecture including the works Psappha by Iannis Xenakis, The Xylophone Poems by Stuart Saunders Smith, and Corporel by Vinko Globokar
11/02
The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VI
NOISE concert. Works include Sacrifice by Toru Takemitsu, and Temazcal by Javier Alvarez
11/02
DMA Recital, University of California, San Diego
Solo recital of works including Thirteen Drums by Maki Ishii and Tira Tike Dha by James Dillon
10/6/02
2001
The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA
Composer and performer of music for the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nine week run, main theatre
Starting 9/01
Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Chamber concert in conjunction with Pierre Boulez. Performance and recording of Le Marteau sans maitre
5/01
1999
Amsterdam Percussion Festival, NL
Solo recital of works including Psappha by Iannis Xenakis
6/99
The Holland Festival, Stadtschoubergzaal, Amsterdam
Concert of Persephassa by Iannis Xenakis
6/99
