Summary
Carson P. Cooman (born June 12, 1982, Rochester, New York) is an American composer and organist.
Cooman was first given piano lessons as a three-year-old and began studying organ under Bruce Klanderman at age ten. He graduated from Allendale Columbia School and then studied music at Harvard University. He then went on to study at Carnegie Mellon University, studying with Bernard Rands and Judith Weir.[1][2]
Cooman is a prolific composer, having composed almost 1,000 works by the time he reached age thirty. As a performer, he tours as a professional organist concentrating on the performance of modern composers; he has premiered more than one hundred works for organ.[3]
Cooman also writes on music, having been editor of the Living Music Journal from 2005 to 2009 and a frequent contributor to the music publication Fanfare.[4] He is currently composer-in-residence at Harvard Memorial Church.[5]
In 2018, Cooman wrote Two Orgelkids Pieces, specially composed for the so-called "Do-organ" of Orgelkids. One of the compositions is dedicated to Lydia Vroegindeweij, who started Orgelkids in 2009.[6]
Footnotes edit
- ^ "Allendale Columbia | Carson Cooman '00". Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ "Carson Cooman | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ "Biographical information about American Composer Carson Cooman and catalog of works published by Musik Fabrik". www.classicalmusicnow.com. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ "Fanfare Magazine Archive of CD Reviews". fanfarearchive.com. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ "Carson P. Cooman". memorialchurch.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ Carson Cooman (2018). "Two Orgelkids Pieces (2018)". carsoncooman.com. Retrieved 2018-11-17. At the webpage the compositions can be heard.
References edit
- Walter Simmons, "Carson Cooman". The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (rev. May 28, 2015, Oxford Music Online).
- M. Power, "A Minimum of Means". Choir and Organ 15 (2007), pp. 15–17.
External links edit
- Official website of Carson Cooman