Tree Palmedo is a Brooklyn-based musician and an eager collaborator in the worlds of jazz, indie rock, and experimental music. 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's contemporary jazz quartet project Earprint received four stars in Downbeat Magazine and was named #1 debut album on the NPR Jazz Critic's Poll, and he has been called a “sagacious trumpeter” by Jazz Trail. He has also released work as a singer-songwriter with the band Peaceful Faces that Elysian Fields’ Oren Bloedow deemed “A very fine song album with echoes of Paul Simon and Robert Wyatt.” He plays regularly in the Brooklyn bands Tredici Bacci and Drinking Bird and can often be found playing with many other improvisers, swing ensembles, songwriters, and rock bands.
He 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. In Boston, he studied trumpet and improvisation with artists such as John McNeil, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran, and studied singing and songwriting with Dominique Eade and Hankus Netsky.
Tree 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. He has also composed for media including film, podcasts, and dance.