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Composers BureauLinda Robbins ColemanBiography
In recent years Coleman's music has been performed from Europe to Hawaii, and from Canada to Mexico. In the past fifteen years she has focused mostly on composing orchestra and chamber music. Her works have been performed by orchestras such as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in Wisconsin, the Dayton Philharmonic in Ohio, the Lexington Philharmonic in Kentucky, and the Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and Quad City symphonies in Iowa. She has been performed by ten orchestras in Iowa and a half dozen each in Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, along with dozens of other groups throughout the nation ranging from fully professional to college and community orchestras. Chamber groups who have performed her music include The Ames Quartet, the Cedar Rapids Chamber Players, the Center for New Music, the Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble, and Clarence Padilla and Friends. Her orchestra and chamber music has been heard on radio broadcasts on two continents, and her music has been featured on three Conductors Guild Annual Conference New Music programs. Her music is tonal, accessible, and audience friendly. It is routinely performed on both pops and "classical" concerts. She has received national recognition and numerous awards. An accomplished pianist, Coleman has performed since the age of six and worked professionally as a jazz and classical soloist and accompanist for thirty years. She has been recipient of more than 60 commissions for compositions ranging from chamber to symphonic music, and from jazz to theatre and film. In 1987, Coleman co-founded the Iowa Composers Forum where she served as its original Executive Secretary and chief administrator for ten years. As an educator, Coleman spent five years as a visiting artist teaching music composition at a magnet elementary school in Des Moines’s inner city. For twenty-nine years she served as research associate to Professor William S. E. Coleman, working on materials related to William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody and the 19th century Lakotas; the escape of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in 1943; and modern productions of ancient Greek plays by the Greek National Theatre. From 1988-2000 she served as research associate and copy editor for the book Voices of Wounded Knee, detailing the events and attitudes leading to the 1890 Massacre and the end of the Plains Indian Wars. It was published by the University of Nebraska Press in September, 2000, and is currently available at bookstores and online. For the past thirty years she has been owner and president of Coleman Creative Services, working in music, promotion, marketing and publicity, desktop publishing, research, and consultation. She has served as author, copy editor, grant writer, composer, educator, and coordinator on various projects for numerous organizations and groups around the USA and abroad. Additionally she has served as a caregiver to various elderly relatives for the past two decades. When she is not working on something musical or historical, Coleman can be found digging in her gardens, creating a new recipe in her kitchen, or doing repair and renovation (including drywall, brick laying, and floor refinishing) on the 1910 home she shares with her husband William and their two cats. For more information, or a full catalog and recordings of Coleman's music, please contact the composer at LindaRobbinsColeman@att.net. The music of Linda Robbins Coleman is suitable for young audiences ages 6 to 96. Further Information
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Linda Robbins Coleman is an internationally acclaimed composer especially in the areas of orchestra and chamber music. She served as the Composer-in-Residence with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra for the 1994-96 seasons, the first Iowa woman to hold this position with any orchestra. She was invited back in that position during the 2001-02 season to help the CRSO celebrate their 80th anniversary. During the 1995-97 seasons Coleman also became Composer-in-Residence with the Wartburg Community Symphony. A native of Des Moines, she is a graduate of Drake University and has studied with the Greek National Theatre. From 1977-97 Coleman was Composer-in-Residence for Drake Theatre, scoring thirty-five plays ranging from the ancient Greeks to the moderns.