 Neta Maughan has been one of the most important piano teachers in Australia in the last 30 years, many of her pupils, such as Simon Tedeschi, Tamara Anna Cislowska and Aaron McMillan, going on to concert careers.Palmer's interests always lay in composition rather than performance and he began writing music at an early age.After leaving school, the necessity of earning a livelihood deterred him from pursuing composition as a career but he continued his own intensive study of composition, constantly writing music for his own satisfaction.