Education
At Northwestern he studied with Anthony Donato (composition), Arrand Parsons (theory), and John Ohl (musicology).
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Randolph Coleman
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He was the first chairman of the national council of the American Society of University Composers, now called The Society of Composers, Incorporated. Coleman was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. He "felt compelled to compose as a teenager" and pursued this first at the University of Virginia before completing Bachelor"s, Master"s and Doctoral work at Northwestern University.
Coleman spent the majority of his career at the Oberlin Conservatory of at Oberlin College, teaching composition and classes on intersections in the arts for 43 years while also teaching in guest residencies at a variety of schools and programs.
Among his students at Oberlin were Kyle Gann, Christopher Rouse, Greg Saunier, Evan Hause, and Brenda Way. He also worked with then students Bill Irwin and Julie Taymor as part of the InterArts program Coleman founded at Oberlin in the 1970s.
Their daughter, Emma Rose, died in 2011. Awards and commissions.
Achievements
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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 Foundation commissioned Coleman to write a work for the first American Festival at Tang1ewood in 1964 (Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra). He received a Fulbright fellowship which took him to Paris and Mexico. Early in his career his work received awards from the International Society of Contemporary in 1962 and 1963. In 2002 he was awarded a residency at the The Rockefeller Institute of Bellagio, Italy as well as an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist"s Award.
