KRIS PALMER, Doctorate of Musical Arts
Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, Recorder
Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, Recorder
"Liebermann's Sonata got a splendid performance tonight. Palmer inhabited the Lento con rubato with sensuous
tone and pace, seamlessly joining the flute's registers into one voice. The following Presto energico was its spiky foil,
delivered with all the propulsion one could hope for. Most performers go no further, but Palmer described larger
structures; this elevated the music from its apparent perpetuum mobile quality to realms of greater scope."
-New York Concert Review, 2001
-New York Concert Review, 2001
Copyright 2011 Kris Palmer, DMA
kris@krispalmer.com
kris@krispalmer.com
Dr. Palmer made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2001 as a winner in the Artists International Competition. Other awards include
second prize in the National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition, first prize in both the Carmel Chamber Music Society Competition and
Houston's Ruth Burr Awards, third prize in the Hemphill-Wells Sorantin Young Artist Awards in Texas, and fourth prize in Texas' Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Young Artist Competition and in the William C. Byrd Competition in Michigan. She has performed as a soloist in San Francisco at Old First
Concerts, Noontime Concerts, the St. Francis of Assisi National Shrine, and the Mission District's Community Music Center. Other Northern Califoria
solo appearances include the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, the Haggin Museum in Stockton, the 2010 International Flute Festival at Half Moon
Bay's Douglas Beach House, Trinity Chamber Concerts in Berkeley, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, and Palo Alto Performances
Series.
Noted for her performances of music from the eighteenth century, Dr. Palmer has performed the concerti of C.P.E. Bach and Mozart in the United States and Europe, and she is the author of the book, Ornamentation According to C.P.E. Bach and J.J. Quantz. She released her solo CD, Versailles, on the Stillwater Sound label featuring her own arrangements of seventeenth and eighteenth century French music. American Music Teacher Magazine writes, "Clearly, Palmer is knowledgeable about ornamentation...her knowledge of the subject is very thorough."
Dr. Palmer is a former member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, where she served as Acting Principal Flutist on multiple state-wide tours. She has held the position of Principal Flutist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque and Second Flutist with the Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles. She has performed an an ensemble musician with the Houston Symphony, the Shreveport Symphony, the Ohio Light Opera Company, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Texas Music Festival. Currently, Dr. Palmer performs regularly with the Santa Cruz County Symphony, the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre, Lamplighters Musical Theatre, the Modesto Symphony, Golden State Theatre Productions, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, and the Diablo Valley Masterworks Chorale.
Dr. Palmer will be featured in soprano, Helene Zindarsian's upcoming CD featuring Armenian Liturgical selections. She appears this coming February with pianist Dmitriy Cogan at St. Timothy's Chamber Music Series in Danville, and she begins her collaboration with guitarist, Steve Lin in Black Cedar Duo with concert appearances coming in the Spring of 2012. Dr. Palmer earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rice University. She has studied with Carol Wincenc, Leone Buyse, Walfrid Kujala, Aralee Dorough, John Thorne, the late Roger S. Stevens, and Gaetano Schiavone in Rome, Italy, and she has taught intermediate and advanced private flute instruction for over eighteen years.
Noted for her performances of music from the eighteenth century, Dr. Palmer has performed the concerti of C.P.E. Bach and Mozart in the United States and Europe, and she is the author of the book, Ornamentation According to C.P.E. Bach and J.J. Quantz. She released her solo CD, Versailles, on the Stillwater Sound label featuring her own arrangements of seventeenth and eighteenth century French music. American Music Teacher Magazine writes, "Clearly, Palmer is knowledgeable about ornamentation...her knowledge of the subject is very thorough."
Dr. Palmer is a former member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, where she served as Acting Principal Flutist on multiple state-wide tours. She has held the position of Principal Flutist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque and Second Flutist with the Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles. She has performed an an ensemble musician with the Houston Symphony, the Shreveport Symphony, the Ohio Light Opera Company, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Texas Music Festival. Currently, Dr. Palmer performs regularly with the Santa Cruz County Symphony, the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre, Lamplighters Musical Theatre, the Modesto Symphony, Golden State Theatre Productions, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, and the Diablo Valley Masterworks Chorale.
Dr. Palmer will be featured in soprano, Helene Zindarsian's upcoming CD featuring Armenian Liturgical selections. She appears this coming February with pianist Dmitriy Cogan at St. Timothy's Chamber Music Series in Danville, and she begins her collaboration with guitarist, Steve Lin in Black Cedar Duo with concert appearances coming in the Spring of 2012. Dr. Palmer earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rice University. She has studied with Carol Wincenc, Leone Buyse, Walfrid Kujala, Aralee Dorough, John Thorne, the late Roger S. Stevens, and Gaetano Schiavone in Rome, Italy, and she has taught intermediate and advanced private flute instruction for over eighteen years.