Linda Robbins ColemanLinda Robbins Coleman is a composer, pianist, writer, and arts ambassador whose music is regularly performed and broadcast throughout North America and Europe. She became the first Iowa woman to have music performed by a major symphony orchestra and o serve as Composer-in-Residence with any orchestra. Her residencies include Drake Theatre, the Wartburg Community Symphony, and Orchestra Iowa. Career highlights include more than 75 commissions, and honors from Drake University, Sigma Alpha Iota, the ACTF at the Kennedy Center, and the Houston International Film Festival. Her music is listed in Daniels' Orchestral Music, published by Rowman and Littlefield. In 2021 her symphonic poem For a Beautiful Land was included on the American Discoveries cd by Reuben Blundell and the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra. This recording was awarded the American Prize for Orchestra Performance. That year also saw the premiere of Diversions, a concerto for one soloist, three flutes and orchestra, commissioned by Robert McConnell and the Southeast Iowa Symphony. In September 2022, it was featured on flutist Rose Bishop's cd, Diversions. Coleman co-founded the Friends of Drake Arts and the Iowa Composers Forum and has served on committees and boards for numerous organizations including the International Conductors Guild. Since 1976, she has owned Coleman Creative Services, working in performance, promotion, publicity, research, and consultation. She is a published poet and writer and has worked as an editor, historian, educator, publicist, and coordinator for numerous organizations and groups throughout the USA and abroad. Additionally, she served as a caregiver to elderly relatives for more than three decades. Boyhood's End is the culmination of William and Linda's forty-year-long personal and professional partnership. Over the years they collaborated on more than thirty theatre productions, dozens of scholarly articles, books, plays, and music. Their advocacy and contributions to non-profit arts organizations and individual artists have been celebrated here and abroad. Their book Voices of Wounded Knee (published by University of Nebraska Press) was the first to give equal weight to the testimony of Native Americans and is considered the definitive book on this topic. Read More Read Less
