Thursday, August 19, 2021

Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program (MAP) Welcomes Flutist and Composer Valerie Coleman for Residency in 2021-22

Valerie Coleman

August 18, 2021

Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program (MAP) Welcomes

Flutist and Composer Valerie Coleman for Residency in 2021-22

Through American Composers Forum’s

BandQuest Commission and Residency Program


NEW YORK–– Flutist and composer Valerie Coleman will join Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program (MAP) for a residency in 2021-22 through American Composers Forum (ACF) and its BandQuest commission and residency program. During the 2021-22 school year, Coleman will work with the young musicians of MAP in a residency that will include workshops, conversations, performances, chamber coachings, and full ensemble collaboration. A culminating piece, co-created by Coleman with the MAP students, will receive its world premiere in New York City in the spring.

 

“I am honored and thrilled to be working alongside Juilliard and American Composers Forum in this exciting venture,” Coleman said. “The opportunities and resources provided to young musicians by these organizations have been invaluable to ensure that the vibrancy and enthusiasm for music playing within students remain strong throughout their young careers.” Coleman, who has served on the MAP faculty, said she looks forward to “reconnecting with the program and spending time with the students during this residency, and to create a work that celebrates and bolsters their artistic potential.”

 

While Coleman has had a long relationship with MAP, this new collaboration with ACF was the result of conversations about how a composer could be integrated into the preparatory program to foster creativity and deepen students’ learning.

 

“The Music Advancement Program is excited to participate in American Composers Forum’s BandQuest residency with the amazing Valerie Coleman,” said Weston Sprott, dean of Juilliard’s Preparatory Division. “Valerie’s return to Juilliard—to create a work for our wind ensemble, teach our students in composition and chamber music, and inspire our community in numerous other ways—promises to be a highlight of the school year.”

 

ACF president and CEO Vanessa Rose said that this “expansion of BandQuest enables ACF to work with several elements of a program like MAP that is dedicated to transformative work: bringing together students studying different areas of music in the spirit of creation, providing an opportunity to pilot a composer-in-residence, and inspiring the student’s ecosystem around them to work and play with a living composer. We are excited to follow the tremendous impact making music with Valerie will have on the students, and their community.”

 

For more than 20 years, ACF’s BandQuest program has enabled established music creators to collaborate with school band programs on creating a new musical work. The resulting pieces of music are published by ACF and distributed exclusively by Hal Leonard Corporation.

 

About Valerie Coleman

Valerie Coleman is an internationally acclaimed, Grammy -nominated flutist and composer. She is an alumna of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Fellowship program, laureate of Concert Artists Guild competition, American Public Radio’s 2020 classical woman of the year, and the creator of the ensemble Imani Winds. Listed as one of the top 35 women composers in the Washington Post, Coleman was the first African-American woman to be commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and was a composer in residence for Orchestra of St. Luke’s five-borough tour. In addition to having had performances of her music by the likes of the St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, New World Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and Utah Symphony, she has received the Herb Alpert Awards Ragdale Prize, Van Lier Fellowship, MAP Fund, and ASCAP Honors Award, among others. Her work UMOJA was listed by Chamber Music America as one of the top 101 great American ensemble works. In addition to multiple commissions from Carnegie Hall, she’s had commissions from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Collegiate Band Directors National Association, Chamber Music Northwest, National Flute Association, and Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Her work as a recording artist features an extensive discography with Imani Winds and appearances on albums by Wayne Shorter Quartet, Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance, Chick Corea, the Brubeck Brothers, Edward Simon, and Mohammed Fairouz on the labels Naxos, Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, eOne and Cedille Records. Her compositions and performances are regularly on the air domestically at Sirius XM, NPR, WNYC, WQXR, and Minnesota Public Radio and abroad including through Radio France, Australian Broadcast Company, and Radio NZ. Coleman is a highly sought-after recitalist and multidisciplinary clinician with a reputation of transformative skill. She’s had master classes and performances at institutions including Juilliard, Eastman School of Music, Curtis Institute, Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, Carnegie Mellon, Oberlin College, University of Chicago, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Valerie Coleman is a Yamaha Flute Artist. vcolemanmusic.com

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