Todd Palmer

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, educator, and presenter around the world. As a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and grand prize winner in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Auditions, he has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Houston, Atlanta, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Montréal, BBC Scotland; and has given recitals at Weill Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has collaborated with artists such as the St. Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo, Jupiter, Lark, and Pacifica string quartets; and sopranos Kathleen Battle, Renée Fleming, and Dawn Upshaw. He has championed Osvaldo Golijov’s clarinet quintet, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind and commissioned Ricky Gordon’s theatre work, Orpheus and Euridice, presented  by Lincoln Center. Festival appearances include Spoleto USA, Bravo! Vail Valley, Music@Menlo, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Vancouver, Rockport, Banff, Marlboro, and Tanglewood, where he received the Leonard Bernstein fellowship as a student. Mr. Palmer appeared as soloist in Robert La Page's staging of The Nightingale and Other Fables at BAM, and gave the world premiere of Crosswalk, a new work for clarinet and dance created for him by choreographer Mark Morris.

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