Donald Palma is solo double bass with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York and bassist and conductor of the new music ensemble Speculum Musicae. A former member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he has also been principal bass of the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the American Composers Orchestra. He has played with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Da Camera Society, and the Juilliard Quartet. Palma has performed in recital with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jan DeGaetani, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He has taught master-classes in the United States, South America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.