Juliet Palmer is a contemporary composer living in

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, Canada

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Juliet Kiri Palmer was born in

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in 1967, where she completed graduate studies in composition, clarinet and time-based art at the University of Auckland. She moved to New York City in 1990 to work with interdisciplinary pioneer

Meredith Monk Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recor ...

and obtained her PhD at

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in 1999. Now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is an active composer and interdisciplinary artist. Her compositions cover a wide range from

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small num ...

and dance theatre to orchestral and opera. Palmer's music has been featured in festivals in US, UK, New Zealand, Netherlands, Japan, Italy, France, Austria and Canada. Her work has been broadcast widely, including radio networks in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, US, Canada and Japan. A detailed catalogue of her work, including streaming audio and video samples may be found at both the Centre for New Zealand Music and the Canadian Music Centre websites.

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* SOUNZ (Centre for New Zealand Music)

* The Canadian Music Centre

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