George Palmer (composer)
George Alfred Palmer (born 20 June 1947) is an Australian classical music composer and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Early life Palmer was born in a British military hospital in Egypt in 1947 while his parents, recently demobilised from the British Army, were awaiting a ship to take them to a new life in Australia. Palmer's family arrived in Sydney when he was 3 months old and he has lived there ever since. He received a Jesuit education at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, with particular emphasis on the Classics, languages and history. He graduated in Arts and Law from University of Sydney in 1970. Musical education Palmer studied piano from the age of 10. His most influential teachers were Frank Warbrick and Neta Maughan. Warbrick was a noted Australian concert pianist and a champion of new Australian music from the 1940s onwards. He later taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Maughan has been one of the most important piano teachers in Australia in the last 30 years. Many of her pupils, including Simon Tedeschi, Tamara Anna Cislowska and Aaron McMillan, went on to concert careers. Palmer's interests always lay in composition rather than