Paul Coleman
- Assistant Professor, Composition and Audio Arts
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Music Composition
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Scoring for Film
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Live and Recorded Sound Engineering
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Sound Design
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Programming
217 Music Building I
- Email paulcoleman@psu.edu
Biography
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.
Paul is active as a composer, having pieces performed in portrait concerts at venues such as 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. Paul is proud to be an Elseways Media founding artist. See more at paulcolemanmusic.com.