Featured Performance

Steinway Spirio Model B|r Player Piano plays Paul Coleman's Simple Algorithms for Player Piano, Fredonia NY (28 February 2024).

Video of Algorithm no 1, Ambient:

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Selected Works List and First Performances

Forthcoming: First Lesson | 2024 (4')
Soprano Voice and Piano.
For my daughter's senior recital, spring 2025

from the ashes... | 2023 (10')
Bass Trombone and Live Electronics.
Fredonia Faculty Composers Concert

Simple Algorithms for Player Piano | 2022-3 (length variable, concert version 25')
Steinway Spirio Player Piano solo.
Fredonia Faculty Composers Concert, Ensemble Signal in Buffalo NY, and Penn State Festival PA

Images of Winter | 2019 (8')
Piano solo.
Fredonia Faculty Composers Concert

Swarm: Quarter-tone Pianos, Glass, and Stone | 2017 (length variable, concert version 8')
Multichannel Live Electronics.
USF New-Music Festival, Tampa FL

Gathering | 2008, rev.2015 (13')
Piano, Harp, Guitar, Marimba, and Live Electronics.
Commissioned by Ossia New Music, Eastman School of Music

Triple Quartet | 2013 (10')
Three String Quartets and Live Electronics.
Faculty Recital, Fredonia

Mock Me | 2013 (12')
Soprano and Live Electronics.
Commissioned by Jamie Jordan. Resonant Bodies Festival, ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn NY

Allan Sitting in a Room | 2013 (8')
Fixed Media.
Ensemble Signal Residency @ The Stone NYC

BirdsOfAFeather (Quartet) | 2013 (20')
Flute, Cello, Piano, Percussion, and Live Electronics.
Ensemble Signal Residency @ The Stone NYC

Fireflies | 2011 (8'30")
Multichannel Fixed Media.
Faculty Recital, Fredonia

Into Winters' Grey (chamber version) | 2011 (12')
Soprano and Ensemble.
Jamie Jordan with Out of Context tour, Rochester & Fredonia

Coupling I | 2011 (7')
Extended-range Oboe and Piano. Commissioned by Alison Lowell.
Out of Context tour, Rochester & Fredonia

Violin Variations (-violations) | 2005, rev.2010 (4')
Violin solo.
Out of Context tour, Rochester & Fredonia

Thawed Machine | 2010 (5')
Eastman Composers' Sinfonietta.
Eastman School of Music

Tiffany Sketches | 2007-10, 2016 (21')
50-bell Carillon and Electronics. Commissioned by Tiffany Ng.
  • Sketches 1-3: Hopeman Memorial Carillon, Rochester NY
  • Sketch 4: XXI International Carillon Festival, Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona Spain
  • Sketch 5: Inauguration of electroacoustic installation at University of Chicago; Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Chicago IL, Chicago IL

Swarm: Quarter-tone Pianos and Glass | 2009 (variable duration)
Audio-visual Installation.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

...to bring together (concerto grosso) | 2009 (15')
String Quintet and Electronics.
Commissioned by Gibbs & Main, Rochester Institute of Technology

Into Winters' Grey | 2009 (13')
Soprano and Large Ensemble.
For Tony Arnold and Eastman's Musica Nova, Brad Lubman, Conductor

Tsvetaeva Songs | 2001, rev.2008 (12')
Soprano and Piano.
Jamie Jordan tour RIT, ESM, and SUNY-Fredonia

Toolshedding |2008 (7')
Percussion Duo - "Wrenchaphones" and Pipe.
Eastman Percussion Ensemble, Water Street Music Hall & The Stone NYC

Eggshells II | 2008 (5')
Amplified String Quartet.
The Stone NYC

On Eggshells | 2008 (3')
Piano Duo and Mechanical Metronome based on the work "Machine with Eggshells" by Arthur Ganson.
For the Warren Benson Forum on Creativity, Eastman School of Music

canvasmix | 2005, rev.2007 (9')
Multichannel Fixed Media.
Eastman School of Music & University of New Mexico

Socorro | 2006 (5')
Sinfonietta Ensemble.
Eastman School of Music