Primo Artists signs composer and flutist Valerie Coleman for Worldwide General Management
Primo Artists welcomes Valerie Coleman to the roster (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy)
PRIMO ARTISTS SIGNS COMPOSER AND FLUTIST VALERIE COLEMAN FOR WORLDWIDE GENERAL MANAGEMENT
NEW YORK (October 4, 2021) – Primo Artists announces the signing of composer and flutist Valerie Coleman to its roster for Worldwide General Management effective immediately.
Charlotte Lee, Founder of Primo Artists, said: “Valerie Coleman is a daring, imaginative composer-performer whose voice and spirit is fearless, freely expressive and full of character. Her gift of storytelling and the messages on society she portrays are inspiring and compelling. She will no doubt have an important place in American sound, and we look forward to building on what is already an international career and a legacy in the canon of classical music.”
Valerie Coleman said: “I am delighted to join the roster of Primo Artists and honored to be with such a preeminent artist management agency. Charlotte Lee and I met in 2019 and she is a savvy pioneer who understands what a 21st century artist needs. I look forward to our collaboration and to the future.”
Valerie Coleman joins a distinguished roster that comprises violinist/conductor Itzhak Perlman, violinists Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti and Randall Goosby, pianists Beatrice Rana and Seong-Jin Cho, conductors Cristian Măcelaru, James Gaffigan, Christian Reif and Gemma New, and composer Wynton Marsalis.
Valerie Coleman is regarded by many as an iconic artist who continues to pave her own unique path as a composer, GRAMMY®-nominated flutist, and entrepreneur. Highlighted as one of the “Top 35 Women Composers” by The Washington Post, she was named Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year in 2020. Her works such as Umoja, Anthem for Unity, chosen by Chamber Music America as one of the “Top 101 Great American Ensemble Works”, are quickly becoming staples of chamber and orchestral literature with significant orchestras and institutions across the United States and beyond.
Coleman’s newest work Fanfare for Uncommon Times was premiered in July 2021 at the Caramoor Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. On October 6, 2021, Carnegie Hall presents her work Seven O'Clock Shout in their Opening Night Gala concert featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This follows on the success of the premiere of Coleman’s orchestral arrangement of her work Umoja by The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 2019, marking the first time the orchestra performed a classical work by a living female African-American composer. In February 2022, The Philadelphia Orchestra and soprano Angel Blue, led by Nézet-Séguin, will give the world premiere of a new song cycle written by Coleman, commissioned by the orchestra for performances in Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall.
Coleman has been named to the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater New Works dual commissioning program in 2021/22. Former flutist of the Imani Winds, Coleman is the creator and founder of this acclaimed ensemble. An active chamber musician, she recently co-founded and performs as flutist of the performer-composer trio Umama Womama.
Coleman recently joined the Mannes School of Music Flute and Composition faculty in Fall 2021 as the Clara Mannes Fellow for Music Leadership. Prior to that she served on the faculty at The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. In 2021/22, she leads a year-long residency at The Juilliard School in their Music Advancement Program through American Composers Forum.
Coleman’s compositions are published by Theodore Presser and her own company, VColeman Music. She studied composition with Martin Amlin and Randy Wolfe and flute with Julius Baker, Judith Mendenhall, Doriot Dwyer, Leone Buyse and Alan Weiss. She and her family are based in New York City.
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Contact:
Charlotte Lee
President and Founder
212 804 8301
charlotte@primoartists.com
www.primoartists.com