He is a creator quite close to the world of jazz and popular music, especially flamenco, fields in which he has been very active as composer, arranger and musical director. Among his other works, Lorca al piano is of note, as well as his composition Poemas del exilio based on texts by Rafael Alberti, performed by the new flamenco singer Miguel Poveda, who in 2004 received the Ciutat de Barcelona Award for this work.

The Gran Teatre del Liceu commissioned him to compose the opera La Cabeza del Bautista, based on the work of the same name by Valle-Inclán with which he made his debut at the Barcelona Teatre del Liceu on April 20, 2009, produced by Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació.

He has composed the symphonic ballet Negro Goya (based on the last creative period of the painter), commissioned by the Spanish National Ballet, with choreography by José Antonio and premiered at the Granada International Music and Dance Festival in 2011. In 2011 he premiered the cantata Beceroles (Dawns) and his first Piano Concerto with Iván Martín as soloist, both works commissioned by the Barcelona Auditorium. In 2013 he premiered the cantatas Nunca los daré por muertos  (I will never give them up for dead) and Geografía Espriu (Espriu Geography) and a year later he debuted in Berlin with the opera Bazaar Cassandra at the Neuköllner Oper, an ÒBNC production. In 2015 he premiered two ballets, Bodas de Sangre and Las Moiras. During 2016-17 he composed a specific collection of works for the Barcelona Clarinet Players quartet: El Maleficio de la mariposa, Égloga and Epigramas Nazaríes. After the premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned by the Staatskapelle Halle (Germany), as the closing work of the season on the 10th anniversary of its refoundation, he was named Artist in Residence at that same organisation, premiering the ballet Inferno and the choreographic poem Toxiuh Molpilia in the 2017-18 season.

His debut in the USA took place with the premiere of Concierto de Granada (Granada Concerto) for guitar and orchestra, with Sharon Isbin as soloist. The Réquiem por el cantaor de los poetas (Requiem for the singer of the poets), dedicated to the memory of Enrique Morente, was commissioned by the Barcelona Auditorium, where it premiered in November 2017.

Since 2014 Enric Palomar has been living in Berlin.