John Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Lucerne Conservatoire, having undertaken courses in composition with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. Back to London, he undertook postgraduate studies in Composition at Trinity College of Music and completed a PhD in Composition at City University. Further studies include composition with Jonathan Harvey and conducting with Alan Hazeldine at the Guildhall School of Music. From 1976 he has been active in different genres, from songwriting to instrumental, choral, chamber, ensemble and orchestral composition, opera and music theatre. As a pianist he has performed in several experimental music, free-jazz and contemporary music groups mainly in the 1980s. Since the late eighties he has focused on acoustic and electroacoustic composition. In 1991 John Palmer founded Vision Studios for recording and production of electroacoustic music. He has produced most of his CDs recordings on the Animato, Electroschock, Living Artists, Sargasso, Synthése and Taukay labels. Palmer’s book on Jonathan Harvey’s work ‘Bhakti’ was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2001. In 2013 he founded Vision Edition, a publishing environment for the discussion and practice of music including composition, musicology and music education. His latest opera “Re di Donne”, premiered in Spoleto in September 2019, has been highly acclaimed by the critics and the press.