The Planning Committee—Members of the Symposium

Anthony J. Palmer is a Professor of Music in Music Education. He has a BA (with ‘honor’) in vocal/choral studies and MA in composition from California State University, Los Angeles; he earned a Ph.D (with ‘distinction’), from the University of California, Los Angeles, as a student of Abraham A. Schwadron. He received the Alumni Award for Outstanding Music Graduate of 1976. He studied Gagaku with Suenobu Togi at UCLA subsequent to doctoral studies. Subsequently, he received a Creative Artist Fellowship from the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission enabling him to study Gagaku in Japan from 1984-85 with Kanehiko Togi of the Imperial Court

Professor Palmer taught at the University of Tennessee, and University of California, Los Angeles, then served at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa prior to retirement in 1998. In addition, he has extensive public school teaching experience including five years at Los Angeles Valley College. His areas of expertise are in music education: world musics in music education, practical and philosophical courses, aesthetics and philosophy of music and music education, , choral conducting, and student teaching supervision and seminars.

In addition to published articles in major national and international journals, he has a chapter on “Music” in Multicultural Hawai’i, the Fabric of a Multiethnic Society and in World Musics and Music Education, Facing the Issues. His video, A Dance for Amaterasu, in Two Movements, Movement One was an Introduction to Japanese history and culture, and was completed at The Univ. of Tennessee in 1987. A second video, Kupuna Po'okele (Kupuna Extraordinary) was telecast on public channels statewide in Hawai`i by 'Olelo in October and November, 1998. Also, he has about 30 choral compositions, arrangements, and editions published by Boosey & Hawkes, Mark Foster Music, and National Music Publisher. He was active in the College Music Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology.  He remains an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, MENC, and ASCAP.; He is a founding member of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education.

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