Frederic Palmer has an M.A. in Early Music from Stanford University and has studied with Bernard Krainis, George Houle, and Michel Piguet. He has directed recorder workshops throughout the United States and was on the staff of the Department of Music at California State University, East Bay from 1971 until his retirement in 2008. In addition to performing both early and contemporary music, he is a published editor, arranger and composer, has had his reviews, articles, and interviews appear in U.S., Canadian and British journals and was awarded first prize in the American Recorder Society's Erich Katz Memorial Fund Composition Contest for an original composition for recorder ensemble.