Valerie Coleman

Valerie Coleman is an internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated artist who is one of the most performed living composers in the world. Commissions include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Atlanta Symphony, Library of Congress, and Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater. Her work has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, among many others. Award highlights include Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year, Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2022 Gift of Music, and Herb Alpert Awards’ Ragdale Prize. She is also the creator, founder, and former flutist of Imani Winds as well as a former fellow in the CMS Lincoln Center Bowers program. Coleman was an artist in residence in Juilliard’s Preparatory Division during the 2021-22 season and is director of the Woodwind Quintet Workshop at Boston University Tanglewood Institute.