JEFFREY CHARLES PALMER, countertenor, had his vocal debut at the age of nine, singing the Pie Jesu from the Fauré Requiem Mass in his native Virginia. As a critically acclaimed recitalist, he has given concerts in venues across the globe, including the Marmorsaal of Salzburg’s Mirabell Palace (Austria), the Hefei Grand Theatre (China), and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (NYC). Known for his ‘particularly attractive timbre with more warmth to the tone than often found with countertenors’ and for singing ‘with great imagination and deep feeling for the words’ (Henry Fogel, Fanfare Magazine), his eclectic taste and flexible musicality have allowed him to be as comfortable singing Purcell and Handel as he is Britten and Björk.

Jeffrey has collaborated with Erickson Beamon on several New York Fashion Week shows, leading him to be hailed as ‘ethereal’ by British journalist and Vogue International Editor-at-Large Hamish Bowles, and has lent his voice to collaborations with several visual artists, including Jennifer Wen Ma. As a collaborative composer, he co-wrote and recorded a track with cellist Danny Bensi featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Amanda Knox and has worked on several arrangements of traditional British and Irish folk songs, which he often performs live. His various theatre credits are the role of Frederick in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (Theatre Royal Bath, UK), Alex Wakim’s Dust And Ions (Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC), as well as masterclasses and workshops with The Metropolitan Opera Guild (NYC). In 2019, he released Beauty 美, his first full-length album in collaboration with pianist Riko Higuma for Blue Griffin Records.

Jeffrey serves as vocal faculty for the annual Music In The Alps Festival in Austria’s Gastein Valley and as the United States Correspondent for the Australian classical and new music magazine CutCommon. He holds a BA in Music from Bath Spa University in the United Kingdom and is based in New York City.