Mr. Palanker performed in over two hundred concerts as the Principal Clarinetist of The Eastern Music Festival Philharmonic in Greensboro, North Carolina for 25 years, where he also performed all of the standard clarinet concertos and chamber music repertoire. He was the clarinetist and bass clarinetist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Retired in 2014. He also performed regularly on the Music by Candlelight Series, the BSO Chamber Music series, and was the principal clarinetist with the Choral Arts Society of Baltimore.