FACULTY AREA SERIES RECITAL – MORRIS PALTER, PERCUSSION

The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents “Gatherings,” a Faculty Artist Series recital featuring Morris Palter, percussion. The free admission performance will be held on Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Crowder Hall. The performance will feature 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)

About the Artists

Born in Canada, Morris Palter’s wide-range of musical interests have found him performing throughout North America, Asia, and Europe at prominent festivals and concert venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, IRCAM (Paris), the Quincena Festival (San Sebastian, Spain), and the Seoul International Computer Music Festival. 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, Christopher Adler, Roger Reynolds, Anders Åstrand, Mark Menzies, Chou-wen Chung, John Luther Adams, James Tenney, Phillipe Manoury, Joan Tower, Evelyn Glennie, David Lang, Stuart Saunders Smith, and many more. Morris is the Co-Artistic Director for the soundON Festival of Modern Music held each year in San Diego, and directed the Northern Exposure Festival of Modern Music each February in Fairbanks until 2016. He is the artistic director of the weeklong summer percussion seminar at the University of Arizona, Tócalo Tucson (June 2 – 9, 2018). Morris was the director of percussion at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2007 – 2016), and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Arizona, where he directs the percussion program at the Fred Fox School of Music. For more information please visit morrispalter.org, tocalotucson.org, percussion.music.arizona.edu