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:
View full live performance (no scores or algorithm flowcharts included)
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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