Randolph 'Randy' Coleman (born 1937) is an American composer and educator. He was the first chairman of the national council of the American Society of University Composers, now called The Society of Composers, Inc.
Coleman was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. He "felt compelled to compose as a teenager"[1] and pursued this first at the University of Virginia before completing Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral work at Northwestern University. At Northwestern he studied with Anthony Donato (composition), Arrand Parsons (theory), and John Ohl (musicology).
Coleman spent the majority of his career at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, teaching composition and classes on intersections in the arts for 43 years[1] while also teaching in guest residencies at a variety of schools and programs.
He currently lives in Oberlin with his wife, Rebecca, and their son, Schuyler. Their daughter, Emma Rose, died in 2011.
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Coleman's musical style is self described as trying to move on from his roots in late modernism.[1] He often concentrated on developing and promoting interdisciplinary works involving students from all the creative fields.
The wide range of styles and genres of his music are influenced by his own history, including performance (on piano and trombone), and conducting new music and writing prose about many types of music (traditional chamber and symphonic music, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues and a variety of non-western musics) for NOTES (MLA Journal), Fine Arts and other journals.
Awards and commissionsedit
Coleman has had commissioned work performed by a variety of ensembles including the Brooklyn Philharmonic (1984), eighth blackbird, Cincinnati Percussion Group, and the Cleveland Contemporary Ensemble. The Fromm Music Foundation commissioned Coleman to write a work for the first American Music Festival at Tang1ewood in 1964 (Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra).[3]
^Rockefeller Institute in Bellagio, Italy 2009-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
External linksedit
Society of Composers, Inc.
April 11, 2024
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