News

• A new wind quintet, Auriga, is currently being written for the wind soloists of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra. The first performances are scheduled for November 2011 in Kings' College Chapel, Aberdeen, as part of the sound Festival and in Rovaniemi, Finland.

• A major new work for choirs, symphony orchestra and electronics, A Caedmon Symphony, is currently being written for inclusion in the University of Aberdeen Concert Series, with a performance in Aberdeen's Music Hall in November 2012.

• Two recent Toronto performances: Fujiko Imajishi performed Reconciliation on 12 March 2010; Robert Aitken, with the New Music Concerts Ensemble, performed Cancri 55 on 6th March 2011

• Palmer's Fourth String Quartet received three performances by the Windermere String Quartet over summer 2009 at three locations in Ontario. The performers described audience reaction at each concert as "terrific".

• Dr Palmer presented a paper at UK Microfest 3, an internationally constituted celebration of microtonal music, at the Riverhouse arts centre in Walton on Thames on 8th March 2009. The paper discussed the potential, and perils!, of writing microtonally for conventionally constituted concert groups.

• Chansons for Violin and Piano was given its first performance to great acclaim by Ruth Palmer and Alexei Grynyuk on 1st March 2009 in the stunning new setting of Kings Place, London.