Todd Palmer, clarinet

Todd Palmer

Clarinetist Todd Palmer has appeared as soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator, educator, arranger, and presenter in a variety of musical endeavors around the world. A three time Grammy nominated artist, he has appeared as soloist with the Atlanta, Houston, BBC Scotland orchestras; St. Paul, New York, Cincinnati, Montrรฉal, and Metamorphosen chamber orchestras, as well as many others. Heโ€™s collaborated with many of the worlds finest string ensembles such as the St. Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo, Pacifica, Daedalus and Ying quartets; and has also shared the stage with sopranos Kathleen Battle, Renรฉe Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Heidi Grant Murphy and Dawn Upshaw, and many other notable instrumentalists. He has championed Osvaldo Golijovโ€™s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blindย  around the world and commissioned the theatre workย  Orpheus and Euridiceย  byย  Ricky Ian Gordon which was presentedย  byย  Great Performers at Lincoln Center in 2005 .ย  He was a winner of the Young Concert Artist International Auditions, and hasย  participated in numerous music festivals in the US and abroad including 18 years at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, 5 years at the Marlboro Festival and the Tanglewood Institute, where he was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship.ย  He has also held principle clarinet positions in the Minnesota Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Lukes, the Gotham Chamber Opera and the Grand Teton Festival.ย  In 2008 he premieredย  David Bruceโ€™s Gumboots, a Carnegie Hall commission that was written especially for him and the St. Lawrence Quartet, and for two years appeared in Lincoln Centerโ€™s revival of South Pacific.Recently he appeared as soloist in Robert Lepageโ€™s staging of Stravinskyโ€™s The Nightingale and Otherย  Fables at BAM โ€” dressed as a Cossackย andย performed the Mozart clarinet concerto as a part of Great Performers at Lincoln Centerโ€™s What Makes It Great series.