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Dan Coleman (composer)

{{Short description|American composer}}

Dan Coleman (born January 12, 1972, in New York City) is a composer and music publisher.

He studied music at the University of Pennsylvania, the Juilliard School, and the Aspen Music Festival and School where his teachers included George Tsontakis, Jay Reise, George Crumb, William Bolcom, Robert Beaser, Stephen Albert and Bruce Adolphe.{{Cite web |title= |url=https://americancomposers.org//wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ACO-Composers_1977-2020.pdf |access-date=1 January 2023 |website=American Composers Orchestra}} He is the first composer alumnus of Young Concert Artists.{{Cite web |title=Alumni by Year |url=https://yca.org/alumni-list/ |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=Young Concert Artists |language=en-US}}

His music has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles, including the American Composers Orchestra, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Cypress String Quartet, Dallas Symphony, [https://fresnophil.org/ Fresno Philharmonic], Honolulu Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Jose Chamber [https://sjco.org/ Orchestra], Festival Mozaic Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Music Society, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra,[http://content.thespco.org/music/compositions/long-ago-this-radiant-day-dan-coleman/ SPCO Archive, retrieved 28 October 2012] Utah Symphony, and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, where he has held the post of composer-in-residence since 2002.[http://tucsonsymphony.org/about-the-tso/orchestra Tucson Symphony Website, retrieved 28 October 2012]

In 2004 he and Bob Donnelly founded Modern Works Music Publishing, an independent music publishing administrator.

Selected works

;Orchestra

  • long ago, this radiant day (1994)
  • Chamber Symphony (1997)
  • The Voice of the Rain (1997)
  • Focoso (2002)
  • L'alma respira (2002)[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/arts/music/04ZAPP.html?th?pagewanted=1 New York Times, retrieved 19 May 2010]
  • Imagining the Dance (2019)

;Concertante

  • Pavanes and Symmetries for flute and string orchestra (2000)

;Chamber music

  • Dezembrum for viola and cello (1992)
  • The Only Dance There Is for violin and piano (1993)
  • Sonata in Two Acts for violin and piano (1996)
  • Sonata notturna for violin and piano (1997)
  • Sad and Ancient Phrases for violin and piano (1999)
  • String Quartet No. 1 "Quartetto ricercare" (1999, revised 2003)
  • "Quintet (after Elizabeth Bishop)" (2001)
  • Summer for viola and piano (2003)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (2004)
  • String Quartet No. 3 "together, as the river" (2016)

;Piano

  • Burden of Dreams (1993)
  • Quasi fantasia (1998)
  • Night Singing (2005)

Awards and honors

Dan Coleman has been the recipient of various awards and honors:{{Cite web |url=http://crosssound.com/CS99/Comp99/CScomposers99.html |title=CrossSound Festival website, retrieved 2 April 2010 |access-date=26 July 2008 |archive-date=3 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703224043/http://www.crosssound.com/CS99/Comp99/CScomposers99.html |url-status=dead }}

  • 2004 Copland House / Sylvia Goldstein Award[http://www.coplandhouse.org/composers/sylvia-goldstein-awards/ Copland House website, retrieved 17 July 2016]
  • 2003 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra / Marilyn K. Glick Composer's Award{{Cite web |url=http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/17445125/1563638852/name/Glick+Competition+Guidelines+for+2011-2012.pdf |title=Glick Award guidelines, retrieved 17 July 2016 |access-date=31 March 2012 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222919/http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/17445125/1563638852/name/Glick+Competition+Guidelines+for+2011-2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}
  • 2001 NFMC Beyer Composition Award{{Cite web |url=http://nfmc-music.org/cms/publications/competitions-awards-division/ |title=NFMC website, retrieved 17 July 2016 |access-date=31 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311072528/http://nfmc-music.org/cms/publications/competitions-awards-division |archive-date=11 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}
  • 2001 Symphony in C Composer's Competition{{Cite web |url=http://symphonyinc.org/orchestra/young-composers-competition |title=Symphony in C website, retrieved 17 July 2016 |access-date=31 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502024643/http://symphonyinc.org/orchestra/young-composers-competition |archive-date=2 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}
  • 2001 Auros Group for New Music Composer Award
  • 2001 New Music USA (Meet The Composer) Music Alive Grant{{Cite web |url=https://www.newmusicusa.org/music-alive |title=New Music USA website, retrieved 17 July 2016 |access-date=31 March 2012 |archive-date=1 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301031210/https://www.newmusicusa.org/music-alive |url-status=dead }}
  • 2000 Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship
  • 1999 Tisch School First Run Festival Best Original Score
  • 1998 Whitaker Commission from the American Composers Orchestra
  • 1997 Victor Herbert/ASCAP award for his Sonata in Two Acts
  • 1996 grant from Commissioning Music/USA (a partnership between the NEA, Meet The Composer and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
  • 1995 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Ives American Academy of Arts and Letters website, retrieved 19 May 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131113705/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Ives |date=31 January 2016 }}
  • 1995 First Music orchestral commission from the New York Youth Symphony.{{Cite web |title=First Music Commissions |url=https://www.nyys.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/First-Music-Commissions-1984-Present.pdf |access-date=1 January 2023}}

Selected discography

[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dan-coleman-mn0001337868/credits All Music Guide, retrieved 17 July 2016]

;as composer

  • 1996 Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra (Albany Records 194)
  • 2004 Kevin Cobb "One" (Summit Records 401)
  • 2006 Sheila Browne & Wesley Baldwin "Lutoslawski, Clarke, Beethoven, Hindesmith, Coleman, Piston: Works for Viola & Cello" (Centaur 2798)
  • 2006 Lara Downes "Dream of Me" (Tritone Records B000H4VVWU)
  • 2007 Carol Rodland "Viola Swirl" (Crystal Records 834)
  • 2015 Jennifer Frautschi & John Blacklow "American Duos" (Albany Records 1593)
  • 2018 Johanna Lundy "Canyon Songs: Art, Nature, Devotion" (MSR Classics MS 1684)
  • 2018 Alice K. Dade "Living Music" (Naxos 8559831)

;as arranger

;as conductor

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.dancoleman.com/}}
  • [http://modernworksmusicpublishing.com/ Modern Works Music Publishing]

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