Juliet Palmer

Juliet Palmer's music has come to life under a highway off-ramp, in a swimming pool, in the plastic flotsam of a remote beach and in concert halls across North America, Europe and Oceania. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Juliet makes her home in Toronto where she is artistic director of Urbanvessel, a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration. Recent works: fire break, (Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra) a song for forests past and future; Choreography of Trauma (for The Element Choir, Continuum ensemble and video) celebrates the thousands of small gestures that save a life; Oil & Water (for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra) chronicles the ecological and political watershed; and Ukiyo, floating world (Urbanvessel and Thin Edge New Music) follows the drift of ideas and plastic across the Pacific Ocean. Recordings include: small excesses (Atoll ); rivers, (Barnyard Records); and Sweat, a feature film of her a cappella opera with libretto by Anna Chatterton, directed by Jennifer Nichols (Bicycle Opera). Juliet was a finalist for the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize (2019 and 2021), winner of the Detroit Symphony’s Elaine 2018 Lebenbom Award, and a Chalmers Arts Fellow (2018-19). She was an OAC Artist-in-Residence at Sunnybrook Medical Research Institute (2018) and composer-in-residence at the New Zealand School of Music and Orchestra Wellington (2011/12). Juliet holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University and an M.Mus in performance, composition and time-based art from Auckland University.

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