Equally at home in a variety of settings, Paul Coleman enjoys a multi-faceted career as a composer, sound engineer, and teacher of composition, electronic music, and theory.

Both as an independent artist and as a founding member and Sound Director for the New York-based Ensemble Signal, Paul has performed, engineered, and/or created sound design for a wide variety of large-scale productions at venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR's Tiny Desk, National Sawdust, The Shed NYC, The Library of Congress, Alice Tully Hall, Victoria Concert Hall (Singapore), Teatro Colón (Buenas Aires), Teatro Degollado (Guadalajara), and Walt Disney Concert Hall. He has served as producer and/or recording engineer for releases on multiple labels, including Mode Records, Harmonia Mundi, ArtistShare, Cantaloupe Music, New Focus Recordings, and Innova. Paul has engineered and directed sound or recorded for a wide variety composers and artists such as Steve Reich, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, George Lewis, Howard Shore, Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, Augusta Read Thomas, violinist Irvine Arditti, drummer Denardo Coleman, saxophonists Ravi Coltrane and Henry Threadgill, and Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood. Of Paul's live sound direction The New York Times wrote "...the sound mixing was more creative than usual. When the score's textures were at their thickest, combinations of instruments were deployed to different speakers around the room, creating interesting spatial effects..." and for the Reich Reverberations concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The New York Times wrote, "Balances, aided by a modicum of amplification, were immaculate..."

Paul’s own compositions have been performed at festivals and venues including the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), John Zorn's NYC venue The Stone, as well as in multiple tours of historic carillons throughout Europe. His work Into Winters' Grey for soprano and large ensemble, was premiered by the Eastman School of Music's Musica Nova, with Conductor Brad Lubman and Soprano Soloist Tony Arnold.

Paul is currently on faculty at the State University of New York at Fredonia where he teaches Composition, Electronic Music, Scoring for Film and Video Games, and Music Theory, and is the Coordinator of the Fredonia Electroacoustic Music Studios. He is also on faculty at the Eastman School of Music, teaching courses in Composition, Computer Music, and Theory for its Community Music School, and has served twice as the Acting Director of The Eastman School of Music's Computer Music Center as a sabbatical replacement. Since 2013, he has also served as coordinator of the composition component of Eastman's Summer Classical Studies Program.

Photo by Gerry Szymanski