For the second program of its current season, the Los Gatos Community Concert Association presents solo clarinetist Todd Palmer Jan. 14 at 2:30 p.m. in the Los Gatos High School auditorium.
Palmer, a native of Hagerstown, Md., has appeared with the Houston Symphony, the Maryland Symphony and other symphony orchestras and the National Chamber Orchestra. He performed in Japan in October 1993, giving concerts in Tokyo and Osaka and a national broadcast concert from Kyoto.
He has been a frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City and has collaborated with singers Kathleen Battle, Renee Fleming and Roberta Peters.
Palmer was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship at the 1987 Berkshire Music Festival.
A performer whose repertoire may range from Schubert, Prokofiev and Debussy to A Clarinet Concerto by American composer Aaron Copland and Benny Goodman's Slipped Disc, he has received high praise from several music critics. A Washington Post reviewer called him "a young player who, judging from his first-rate playing, has big things ahead.
"Palmer's tone was polished and engaging," Post critic Arthur R. Smith wrote. "From the onset, the clarinetist left no doubt as to the mastery of his instrument."
He made his New York debut in 1987 as a winner of the Artists International Competition. He was the first wind player to win top prize in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition in 1988, and more recently, in 1991, he won the silver medal in the Castello di Duino International Clarinet Competition in Trieste. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the Mannes College of Music
For ticket information, call 356-7268 or 377-1106.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, January 10, 1996.
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