Dan Coleman (born January 12, 1972, in

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) is a composer and music publisher. He studied music at the

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, the

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, and the

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where his teachers included

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and

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. He is the first composer alumnus of

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. His music has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles, including the

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Fresno Philharmonic

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, San Jose Chambe
Orchestra
Festival Mozaic Orchestra,

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, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble,

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, and the

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, where he has held the post of composer-in-residence since 2002. In 2004 he and

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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) * ''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: *2004 Copland House / Sylvia Goldstein Award *2003 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra / Marilyn K. Glick Composer's Award *2001 NFMC Beyer Composition Award *2001 Symphony in C Composer's Competition *2001 Auros Group for New Music Composer Award *2001 New Music USA (Meet The Composer) Music Alive Grant *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 *1995 First Music orchestral commission from the New York Youth Symphony.

Selected discography

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/ref> ;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 *1995

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, Tails *1997

, Firecracker *1999 Music from the motion Pictur
Anywhere But Here
*2002

, Cake and Pie *2006

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*2013

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, Walking Shadows *2013

, Spritoso ;as conductor *2010

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, Highway Rider *2012

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, Grand Ukulele

References

External links

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