Percussionist Morris Palter to perform

Submitted by Scott Deal
Phone: (907) 474-1873
03/07/06

Percussionist Morris Palter will present a recital on Thursday, March 9 at 8 p.m. in the Charles W. Davis Concert Hall.

Born in Canada, Morris Palter has performed throughout North America and Europe including appearances at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, the Agora Festival, Cit? Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Quincena Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, the Green Umbrella concert series in Los Angeles, and the PASIC 2004 in Nashville, as well as at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall under famed conductor/composer Pierre Boulez.

Palter has also performed at the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest Music Festival, the Amsterdam Percussion Festival, the new Disney Hall with Evelyn Glennie and on CBC Radio’s weekly show Sounds Like Canada.

He actively commissions both solo and chamber works and has collaborated with various artists including Steve Schick, Bob Becker, Pierre Boulez, Evelyn Glennie, Roger Reynolds, Michael Roth, David Lang, Derek Keller and Matthew Burtner.

General admission is $10, $5 for students, seniors and military.

Palter will also be performing with UAF Professor Scott Deal on the March 23 UAF Internet2 Day concert, scheduled for 4 p.m. in the Davis Concert Hall. Admission to the Internet2 Day concert is free.

For more information contact Scott Deal at (907) 474-1873 or e-mail scott.deal@alaska.edu .