瓦莱丽·科尔曼

College faculty member: 作文, 木管乐器:长笛, Contemporary Performance, 室内乐.

瓦莱丽·科尔曼 is regarded by many as an iconic artist who 继续s to pave her own unique path as a composer, GRAMMY®-nominated flutist, 和企业家. Highlighted as one of the “Top 35 Women Composers” by The Washington Post, she was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year, an honor bestowed to an individual who has made a significant contribution to classical music as a performer, composer or educator. Her works have garnered awards such as the MAPFund, ASCAP Honors Award, 室内乐 America’s Classical Commissioning Program, Herb Alpert Ragdale Residency Award, 和 nominations from The American Academy of Arts 和 Letters 和 United States Artists. Umoja was chosen by 室内乐 America as one of the “Top 101 Great American Ensemble Works” 和 is now a staple of woodwind literature.

Coleman commenced her 2022/23 season with gr和 slam of highlights, beginning with a world premiere of a flute concerto by composer Jennifer Higdon, 题为, The Light We Can See, performed by Coleman herself on flute alongside the baton of Leonard Slatkin 和 the Chicago Philharmonic. While she performed the work in Chicago, the second installment of her song cycle, Eternal Flame was being premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra with Metropolitan Opera soprano Angel Blue. 个月后, the New York Youth Symphony album featuring 她的工作, Umoja: Anthem of Unity, received a Grammy award win, while her concerto for bassoon called, 作品瑟瑞娜, was premiered by bassoonist Monica Ellis 和 the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Jeri Lynn Johnson.

In her 2021/22 season, 她的工作, Fanfare for Uncommon Times, gave voice to a moment in time, 和 received its world premiere at the Caramoor Festival with the 圣管弦乐团. 卢克的. 2021年10月, Carnegie Hall presented 她的工作 dedicated to the essential workers of the p和emic in Seven O’Clock Shout, which was commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra, in their Opening Night Gala concert featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra 和 Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This follows on the success of the world premiere of Coleman’s call for unity within the orchestral arrangement of 她的工作 Umoja, commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra 和 performed in Philadelphia 和 at Carnegie Hall in 2019, marking the first time the orchestra performed a classical work by a living female African-American composer. 2022年2月, The Philadelphia Orchestra 和 soprano Angel Blue, led by Nézet-Séguin, gave the world premiere of a new song cycle written by Coleman, commissioned by the orchestra for performances in Philadelphia 和 at Carnegie Hall.

Coleman was named to the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater New Works dual commissioning program in 2021/22, a season sees performances of 她的工作s by orchestras around the United States including the Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Yale Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony 和 The Louisville Orchestra. Recent commissions include works for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Library of Congress, 圣管弦乐团. 卢克的, American Composers Orchestra, The National Flute Association, University of Chicago 和 University of Michigan. Previous performances of 她的工作s have been with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. 路易交响曲, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony 和 significant chamber ensembles 和 collegiate b和s across the country.

Former flutist of the Imani Winds, Coleman is the creator 和 founder of this acclaimed ensemble whose 25-year legacy is documented 和 featured in a dedicated exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History 和 Culture in Washington, D.C. She recently co-founded 和 currently performs as flutist of the performer-composer trio Umama Womama.

作为表演者, Coleman has appeared at Carnegie Hall 和 The Kennedy Center 和 with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, 班夫, Spoleto USA 和 Bravo! 维尔. As a guest flutist, she has participated in the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, New Jersey Flute Fair, South Carolina Flute Society Festival, Colorado Flute Fair, Mid-South Flute Fair 和 the National Women’s Music Festival. In 2021/22, she was featured at a host of festival 和 collegiate multi-disciplinary residencies, including 圣管弦乐团. 卢克的, 室内乐 Northwest, Phoenix 室内乐 Society, University of Michigan 和 Coastal Carolina University. Coleman was also the featured guest artist at the Long Isl和 Flute Club, Raleigh Area Flute Association, Greater Portl和 Flute Society, Seattle Flute Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison Flute Day, Bethune-Cookman University Flute Day 和 the Florida Flute Society Festival.

As a chamber musician, Coleman has performed throughout North America 和 Europe alongside Dover Quartet, Orion String Quartet, Miami String Quartet, Harlem String Quartet, Quarteto Latinoamericano, 马友友, Ani 和 Ida Kavafian, Anne-Marie McDermott, 吴汉, 大卫Shifrin, 吉尔·卡利什, members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, 和 jazz legends Paquito D’Rivera, Stefon哈里斯, Jason Moran 和 René Marie. A laureate of Concert Artists Guild, she is also a former fellow of The 室内乐 Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program.

Coleman’s work as a recording artist includes an extensive discography. 伊玛尼风, she has appeared on 索尼经典, Deutsche Grammophon, 索尼经典, 纳克索斯岛, Cedille Records 和 eOne, 和 as a guest flutist on albums with Wayne Shorter Quartet, Steve Coleman 和 the Council of Balance, 奇客, 布鲁贝克兄弟, 爱德华·西蒙, 布鲁斯·阿道夫, 和 Mohammed Fairouz. Her compositions 和 performances are regularly broadcast on NPR, WNYC, WQXR, Minnesota Public Radio, Sirius XM, 法国广播电台, Australian Broadcast Company 和 Radio New Zeal和.

Committed to arts education, entrepreneurship 和 chamber music advocacy, Coleman created the Imani Winds 室内乐 Festival in 2011, a summer mentorship program in New York City welcoming young leaders from over 100 international institutions. She has held flute 和 chamber music masterclasses at institutions in 49 states 和 over five continents, including The Juilliard School, 柯蒂斯学院, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, New Engl和 Conservatory, 欧柏林大学, Eastman School of Music, 耶鲁大学, 卡内基梅隆大学, Interlochen Arts Academy, Beijing Conservatory, Brazil’s Campo do Jordão Festival 和 Australia’s Musica Viva. As a part of Imani Winds, she has been artist-in-residence at Mannes College of Music, 班夫 室内乐 Intensive 和 Visiting 教师 at the University of Chicago.

Coleman is a faculty member of the Mannes School of Music Flute 和 作文 program as the Clara Mannes Fellow for Music 领导. Prior to that she served on the faculty at The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami as Assistant Professor of Performance, 室内乐 和 Entrepreneurship. In 2021/22, she led a year-long residency at The Juilliard School in their Music Advancement Program through American Composers Forum.

As an advocate for performers 和 composers alike, she adjudicates for the National Flute Association’s High School Artist Competition, Concert Artist Guild, APAP’s Young Performing Concert Artists Program, ASCAP’s Morton Gould Award, MapFund Award 和 the Fischoff National 室内乐 Competition 和 has served on the Board of Advisors for Composers Now, 斯芬克司领导, APAP’s Classical Connections Committee 和 the National Flute Association’s New Music Advisory Committee 和 Board Nomination Committee.

Coleman is a Yamaha artist. Her compositions are published by Theodore Presser 和 her own company, VColeman Music. She carries with her the pedagogical legacies from her former teachers: composers Martin Amlin 和 R和y Wolfe, 和 flutists Julius Baker, Judith Mendenhall, 德怀尔多, 里昂Buyse, 艾伦·韦斯. She 和 her family are based in New York City.