Basic Information
Name | Christopher Coleman |
Birthday | - |
Programme Hosted | The Classical and The Curious 爾想不到 |
Personal Information
Strength / Hobbies | Standup Comedy and Improv Comedy |
Favourite music | Mahler's and Beethoven's symphonies, and Schubert songs, and Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, and Big Band Jazz, and Balinese Gamelan, and... |
Favourite movies | Cloverfield--I'm a sucker for monster movies |
Goal / Dream | I would love for my own music to be more widely performed and appreciated. The hardest job of being a composer is to get performances |
Motto | Imagination is the only truly infinite resource |
About me | I am a composer of nearly 100 pieces that have been performed in over 50 countries and throughout the United States. My award-winning CD Multiple Worlds is available from Ablaze. I taught composition and music theory for thirty years, and formed and directed the Big Swinging' Band, Hong Kong's first university big band fully manned by student performers. I've performed standup comedy and am a founding member of People's Liberation Improv, Hong Kong's first and longest running comedy improv troupe, appearing in Chicago, Madrid, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Manila, Macau and Hong Kong. |
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