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 audio arts. 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, Tokyo Opera City and Nagano Hall Japan, 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 fellow 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 and composer 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 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. He serves as Assistant Professor of Composition and Audio Arts at the Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches Composition, Recording and Live Engineering, and Electronic Music, and is proud to be an Elseways Media founding artist.

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