Tree Palmedo is a Brooklyn-based musician and eager collaborator whose work spans the worlds of jazz, indie rock, and experimental music. The music he has released with his band Peaceful Faces has been acclaimed by Elysian Fields’ Oren Bloedow as “a very fine song album with echoes of Paul Simon and Robert Wyatt,” and his experimental jazz quartet Earprint received four stars in Downbeat Magazine and was named #1 debut album on the NPR Jazz Critic's Poll. He has been called a “sagacious trumpeter” by Jazz Trail, and has also composed ambient work and written scores and songs for theater, podcasts, and dance.
As a trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, he has recorded and performed with acclaimed indie rock bands like Fleet Foxes, The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Mild High Club, and Sloppy Jane, as well as an eclectic cast of musicians such as avant-pop orchestra Tredici Bacci, singer-songwriter Ben Zaidi, underground legend JG Thirlwell, and Oscar-nominated songwriter Joshuah Brian Campbell.
Tree attended the Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program on a full scholarship, graduated cum laude from Harvard, then completed a Master's degree at the New England Conservatory. He has also taught music privately and through the Harvard University Music Department, and has conducted masterclasses in NYC and California public schools and at the 2017 Panama Jazz Festival.