Valerie Coleman
Valerie Coleman (CFA’95) of New York, N.Y., is a Grammy-nominated composer and flutist who was recently listed as one of the top 35 women composers by Washington Post critic Anne Midgette, alongside fellow composer Missy Mazzoli (CFA’02). Valerie is commissioned to write a concerto for wind quintet and orchestra to be premiered at Carnegie Hall in November 2018 with the American Composers Orchestra and Imani Winds; a new suite for clarinet and string quartet based on the life of Muhammad Ali for David Shifrin and the Harlem String Quartet; and a featured work for the National Flute Association’s High School Artist Competition. Last fall, she was a visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago and a featured guest artist of both the 2017 New Jersey and 2018 Mid-Atlantic Flute Fairs.
From the Winter-Spring 2018 issue.