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Equally at home as a soloist, collaborator, presenter, and educator, James Palmer is a dynamic young pianist based in Houston, Texas. Mr. Palmer is currently a doctoral student at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, studying with Dr. Robert Roux on full scholarship. He previously received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with legendary musicians Émile Naoumoff and Menahem Pressler. A busy 2022-2023 season has seen Mr. Palmer embark on a lecture-recital series entitled What is a Piano Prelude?, in which he presented and performed a set of newly-commissioned solo piano preludes by six award-winning composers. He released a YouTube series of the same name in early 2023, presenting these works in an innovative online interview-performance series. As the Secretary of the Scriabin Society of America, Mr. Palmer helped organize and performed in the SSA’s International Scriabin 150 Festival in November 2022. He is slated to appear in a number of solo and chamber engagements throughout the United States in 2023. Palmer has been a prizewinner and finalist in numerous international competitions and created the YouTube series Scriabin Preludes Project from 2019-2020.

Find out more at jamespalmerpiano.com

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