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Nayland Arts Society are proud to present an exclusive evening with celebrated BBC and independent film maker/author Tony Palmer, in conversation with Mark Wilkinson, graphic designer and illustrator for some of Tony?s DVD?s over the years as well for some of the world's most famous bands (Iron Maiden, Marillion, Judas Priest etc).
Tony will be talking about a selection of his award-winning films across a wide spectrum of Rock, Pop, Classical and Opera.

Educated at Cambridge, Palmer's TONY PALMER?s vast filmography of over one hundred films ranges from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa (200 Motels), to the famous portraits with and about Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas, André Previn, John Osborne, Leonard Cohen (Bird on a Wire), Margot Fonteyn, Renée Fleming and Menuhin, as well as feature films such as Testimony, starring Ben Kingsley as Shostakovich. His 7 hour 45 minutes film on Wagner, starring Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave, was described by the Los Angeles Times as ?one of the most beautiful films ever made?. Among over 45 international prizes for his work are 14 Gold Medals at the New York Film & Television Festival (the most recent in 2016).
He is also a prize-winning opera director, including the Golden Mask in Moscow, and recipient of three Platinum and two Gold records.
A D.Mus (Hon), D.Litt (Hon) and FRGS (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society), he is the only person to have won the PRIX ITALIA three times, and in 2014 was nominated for the Glenn Gould International Prize, unprecedented for a documentary film maker. In 2017 he received the ?Outstanding Achievement Award? at Hot Docs in Toronto, and in 2019 the Stravinsky Prize from Ustilug and the Tchaikovsky Medal from the National Academy of Music in Kyiv. He lives in the most westerly house in England, next to Land?s End. The talk will include an audience Question and Answer session and will be illustrated by film clips of Palmer's work.

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Church Lane,

Nayland,

Suffolk,

England,

CO6 4JH.