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

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

, and the

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where his teachers included George Tsontakis,

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, William Bolcom, Robert Beaser, Stephen Albert and Bruce Adolphe. He is the first composer alumnus of Young Concert Artists. His music has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles, including the American Composers Orchestra,

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, Cypress String Quartet, Dallas Symphony
Fresno Philharmonic
Honolulu Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony,

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, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Jose Chambe
Orchestra
Festival Mozaic Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Music Society, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony, and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, where he has held the post of composer-in-residence since 2002. 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) * ''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

All Music Guide, retrieved 17 July 2016
/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 Calexico, Garden Ruin *2013 Joshua Redman, Walking Shadows *2013 Calexico, Spritoso ;as conductor *2010

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, Highway Rider *2012 Jake Shimabukuro, Grand Ukulele

References

External links

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Modern Works Music Publishing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Dan 1972 births Living people 21st-century American composers 21st-century American male musicians American composers American male composers Aspen Music Festival and School alumni Juilliard School alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni