Maestro Palmer is Music Director of the Lafayette Symphony in Indiana, the North Charleston Pops in South Carolina and in his 25th season as conductor of the Evening Under the Stars Festival orchestra in
Massachusetts.
Nick was a recipient of the Helen M. Thompson Award from the League of American Orchestras as the
nation’s most outstanding young music director. He has had an extensive recording career including recent recordings with the London Philharmonic at the Abbey Road Studios which have garnered several Gramophone and Billboard awards. Nick is thrilled to be Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of the ASO this season!
Nick has won rave reviews with the Detroit Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony,
Tucson Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Louisville Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Salt Lake Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Greenville Symphony, and other orchestras across the nation. Nick is a Pops conductor for the Springfield (MA) Symphony.
A favorite guest conductor in Europe, Mexico, and Latin America, Palmer has led the Europa Philharmonie, Czech Radio Orchestra, San Remo Symphony, West Bohemia Symphony, Sophia Symphony, Milano Classico Orchestra, Laussane Symphony, the OSSLA and Monterrey Symphony in Mexico, National Orchestra of Bolivia and the Medellin Symphony in Columbia.
A native of Hingham, Massachusetts, Dr. Palmer graduated cum laude from Harvard University and received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Orchestral Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Iowa, respectively. He also studied at the Juilliard School, Pierre Monteux Domaine School, Aspen Music School, the Festival at Sandpoint, and the
Accademia Chigiana in Italy, where he was a student of Franco Ferrara and Carlo Maria Giulini.
