Equally at home in a variety of settings, Paul Coleman enjoys a multi-faceted career as a composer, sound engineer, and professor of composition and electronic music. Paul has appeared on NPR's Tiny Desk with his group Ensemble Signal, where he is a founding member and Sound Director. In live sound, Paul has engineered over 200 shows at venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Teatro Colón Argentina, Victoria Concert Hall Singapore, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Paul's producer and recording credits can be found on harmonia mundi, Mode Records, Cantaloupe Music, Artist Share, New Focus, and others, and is a Grammy voting member of the Recording Academy. In these various capacities, Paul has worked closely alongside composers and artists such as Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, George Lewis, Howard Shore, Kaija Saariaho, Irvine Arditti, and Radiohead guitarist 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 remains active in composition, having pieces performed in concerts at venues like John Zorn's The Stone, on multiple tours of historic carillons throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, and an installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. 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.

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