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	News Items Press Kit Tour Programs Media "Under the economical but musically poignant gesture of the London conductor and composer David R. Coleman in the studio of Hessian radio, instrumental colours, sharply defined and of great contrast emerged like lightning from the silences of the tutti sections. In the soft passages, filled with string harmonics, the musicians of the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra realised Anton Weberns concept of melodic activity on the edge of silence and avoided any overfussiness. Webern´s music in the interpretation of Coleman does not need a sealed off arena to be heard. The music carris on sounding in the listener precisely through its anticlimactic tendencies. The music remains an exclusive and emphatic work of art, in itself complete even though consciously fragmentary." Achim Heidenreich Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "What a thunderous opening! The Young Euro Classic concert series returned triumphantly to the Konzerthaus and scored a musical hit with the "Youth Orchestra of the Americas" under the direction of David Robert Coleman." Klaus Geitel, Berliner Morgenpost "The contours and musical ideas were structured clearly in Pierre Boulez´"cummings ist der dichter"...At the end the conductor David Robert Coleman and the Ensemble Modern received a heartfelt and enduring applause for a concentrated reading of Jean Barraque´s "Concerto" that displayed real joy in fine instrumental colours. What is great about New Music? The musicians themselves provide the answer." Carsten Niemann, Berliner Tagesspiegel, Berlin Biennale Press Kit Concert Repertoire Opera Repertoire Reference David Robert Coleman website Media Music Downloads page Mozart: Jupiter Symphony Revueltas: Noche de Jaranas return to top			David Robert Coleman, conductor David Robert Coleman is the Associate Conductor of the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra in Munich. In the fall of 2007 he became the first Associate to lead the orchestra in a series of public performances. The program featured two ballets: "Chamber Symphony" a work based on Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" and "Der Sturm", drawing on music of Sibelius, Bruckner and Tchaikovsky. Following his successful debut with the Montréal Symphony in a 2008 subscription concert that also showcased his work as a composer, Coleman returned to conduct the orchestra in 2010 and will appear on its podium again in 2011. Associate-conductor and assistant to Maestro Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, he made his debut with the Bavarian State Orchestra conducting Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde", Sibelius 7th Symphony and Bruckner's 4th Symphony. David Robert Coleman has toured Mexico with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie for a series concerts, one of which will be televised from the Teatro Bellas Artes, including Brahms' 4th Symphony and Penderecki's Viola Concerto. While developing an highly regarded reputation as a guest-conductor with distinguished orchestras and ensembles such as the Ensemble Modern Orchestra (Berlin Biennale and Wiener Festwochen 2001), the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Bremen State Orchestra, Coleman continues to conduct opera. Recent productions include the three-act version of Berg's "Lulu" at the Mainz State Opera that received critical acclaim. Since 2004 David Robert Coleman has worked closely with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. He has conducted the YOA in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. In August 2006 he opened the Young Euro Classics Festival in the Berlin Konzerthaus with a triumphal concert that included the German first performance of Silvestre Revueltas' "Night of the Mayas" as well as the premiere of his own "Albeniz Phantasy for viola and orchestra" with Edmundo Ramirez as the soloist. The concert received ecstatic reviews in a wide range of German newspapers and was broadcast on German public radio. Born into an English-German family in London, he studied piano, musicology and conducting at King's College Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music London (winning major conducting prizes). He pursued studies in composition with George Benjamin in London and later with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe. David Robert Coleman's formation as a conductor continued working as an assistant to some of the most important conductors of our time, such as Pierre Boulez in Aix-en-Provence and Sir Simon Rattle on Wagner's "Ring". In addition, for over six years David worked as assistant-conductor at the Southwest German Radio Orchestra Baden-Baden, conducting rehearsals and preparing programmes for conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach and Hans Zender. He also worked as an assistant-conductor and repetiteur at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and at the Mannheim National Theatre. As a composer David Robert Coleman has been performed and commissioned by many leading ensembles and orchestras in France and Germany, such as Ensemble Intercontemporain (who commissioned the piece "Deux" in 2003), Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Seville Biennale 2004, Luxembourg Spectral Music Festival 2005, Jena Philharmonic, Oldenburg State Orchestra and the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. In 2001 he was a prize-winner at the Frankfurt Opera Young Composers' Competition, where his chamber-opera "Herzkammeroper" was performed with the Ensemble Modern under his direction. In 2002 he conducted his piece "Starry Night" for piccolo, piano and small orchestra with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal. David Robert Coleman has just completed an arrangement of Ernst Bloch "Shelomo" for chamber-orchestra and 'cello that Kent Nagano and members of the Bavarian State Orchestra will premiere at the opening concert of the Operfestspiele 2007 in the new Jewish Cultural Centre in Munich. The music of David Robert Coleman is published by Alphonse Leduc Paris.