10 Facts About Anthony Coleman

Anthony Coleman was born on August 30,1955 and is an American composer and avant-garde jazz pianist.

At the age of thirteen, Coleman started studying piano with Jaki Byard.

Anthony Coleman's Disco by Night is a work inspired by his visit to his family's homeland of Yugoslavia and was his first major solo record released by Japan's Avant Records in 1992.

Anthony Coleman is an accomplished composer with many works being commissioned by numerous ensembles including the 2006 work Pushy Blueness which was released on Tzadik.

Anthony Coleman has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music since 2005 and Mannes College New School for Music since 2012.

Anthony Coleman has degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and the Yale School of Music and attended Mauricio Kagel's seminar at Centre Acanthes in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Anthony Coleman has received grants and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Djerassi Colony, the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Kulturbehorde and the Yellow Springs Arts Center.

Anthony Coleman spent the spring semester of 2003 teaching theory and composition at Bennington College in Vermont.

Anthony Coleman writes articles for All About Jazz and Bomb magazine and was a contributor to John Zorn's essay collection Arcana: Musicians on Music in 2000.

In 2005 Anthony Coleman was interviewed for the Marc Ribot documentary The Lost String, directed by Anais Prosaic.