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Gene Coleman, composer
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician, and artistic director. He has created over forty works for various instrumentation, often using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Radical use of the instrument's sound-producing possibilities makes Coleman, both as a composer and as a performer, a
musician who seeks a greater synthesis between what is called sound (or noise) and what is called music.

Coleman has an extensive record working internationally. He recently was composer in residence at Westwerk in Hamburg, Germany (2007) and the Taipei Artists Village (2007). In 2005, he was a recipient of grants from Meet the Composer and the US State Department for a composer's residency in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2001, he received a fellowship from the NEA/Japan-US Friendship Commission and lived in Japan for eight months. He has been composer in residence at Spritzen Haus (Hamburg, 1995), The House of World Cultures (Berlin, 2003/2004), and the University of Lubeck (Germany, 2005).

Gene Coleman is also known for his work as a curator and artistic director of new music programs and festivals. He founded the experimental music festival "Sound Field" in Chicago in 2000 and is the artistic director.