{{Short description|American composer and organist}} {{Mdy|date=November 2024}}'''Carson Pierce Cooman''' (born June 12, 1982) is an American composer and organist. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hall |first=Jonathan B. |date=February–April 2019 |title=Carson Cooman: A voice to be reckoned with |url= |journal=Organ |volume=98 |issue=387 |pages=40–48 |via=Academic Search Complete}}</ref>
Cooman was born in Rochester, New York on June 12, 1982.<ref name=GMO>{{cite web |last=Simmons |first=Walter |date= |title=Grove Music Online: Carson Cooman |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/search?q=Carson+Cooman&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true |website= |location= |publisher=Grove Music Online |access-date=February 4, 2025}}</ref> He was introduced to music by his grandmother who taught music and was a graduate of Eastman School of Music. Cooman began taking piano and organ lesson at an early age, and began composing aged 8.<ref name="Spevak 1997 a">{{cite news |last1=Spevak |first1=Jeff |title=Dissonance is disagreeable for 14-year old Brighton classical composer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-carson-cooman-19/164805982/ |access-date=28 February 2025 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=April 16, 1997 |location=Rochester, New York |page=1E}}</ref> As a teenager, he set up his own software company.<ref name="Spevak 1997 b">{{cite news |last1=Spevak |first1=Jeff |title=Cooman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-carson-cooman-19/164806068/ |access-date=28 February 2025 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=April 16, 1997 |location=Rochester, New York |page=4E}}</ref> He attended Allendale Columbia School,<ref name="Spevak 1997 a" /> followed by Harvard University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and then Carnegie Mellon University where he graduated with a Master of Music. Cooman studied composition with Bernard Rands and Judith Weir.<ref name="Quinn" />
Cooman's compositions have been recorded for Naxos Records, Convivium Records, Albany Records, Métier Records, Divine Art Records, Gothic Records and Artek Recordings (with distribution by Naxos).
Cooman writes on music, having been a contributor to the music publication ''Fanfare''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fanfarearchive.com/bios/carson-cooman.html|title=Fanfare Magazine Archive of CD Reviews|website=fanfarearchive.com|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref> He is currently composer-in-residence at Harvard Memorial Church.
==Selected discography of Cooman compositions== * 2007 - ''Carson Cooman: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3'', Naxos Records American Classics<ref name="Eddins">{{cite web |last1=Eddins |first1=Stephen |title=Carson Cooman: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/carson-cooman-symphonies-nos-2-3-mw0001853525 |website=AllMusic |access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref><ref name="Waller">{{cite web |last1=Waller |first1=Patrick C |title=CD Review: Carson COOMAN Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/June07/Cooman_8559329.htm |website=MusicWeb International |access-date=28 February 2025 |date=June 2007}}</ref> * 2007 - ''Carson Cooman: Piano Music'', Naxos Records American Classics<ref name="Morgan">{{cite web |last1=Morgan |first1=Dan |title=CD Review: Carson COOMAN Piano Music |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2008/Mar08/Cooman_8559350.htm |website=MusicWeb International |access-date=28 February 2025 |date=March 2008}}</ref><ref name=" Woolf">{{cite web |last1= Woolf |first1=Jonathan |title=CD Review: Carson COOMAN Piano Music |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Jan08/cooman_8559350.htm |website=MusicWeb International |access-date=28 February 2025 |date=January 2008}}</ref> * 2008 - ''Carson Cooman: Sacred Choral Music'', Naxos Records American Classics<ref name="Quinn">{{cite web |last1=Quinn |first1=John |title=CD Review: Carson COOMAN Sacred Choral Music |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Feb09/Cooman_Sacred_8559361.htm |website=MusicWeb International |access-date=28 February 2025 |date=February 2009}}</ref> * 2008 - ''New Dawn: Song Cycles and Piano Music of Carson Cooman'', Albany Records<ref name="Briggs">{{cite web |last1=Briggs |first1=Bob |title=CD Review: Carson COOMAN New Dawn |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/jan09/COOMAN_Troy1053.htm |website=MusicWeb International |access-date=28 February 2025 |date=January 2009}}</ref> * 2010 - ''Carson Cooman: Nantucket Dreaming'' , Naxos Records American Classics * 2011 - ''Wild Sunrises: Organ Music of Carson Cooman''<ref name="Sunrises Am Org">{{Cite journal |title=Reviews. Recordings. Wild Sunrises: Organ Music of Carson Cooman |journal=The American Organist |volume=47 |issue=10 |pages=74–75 |date=Oct 2013}}</ref> * 2012 - ''The Welcome News: Choral Music of Carson Cooman'', Gothic Records<ref name="Denney Welcome">{{cite journal |last1=Denney |first1=Alan |title=Recorded Sound Reviews: Carson Cooman: The Welcome News Choral Music of Carson Cooman by Cambridge Consonance, Jeffrey Grossman |journal=The Choral Journal |date=June–July 2014 |volume=54 |issue=11 |pages=70–71 |jstor=43052025 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43052025 |access-date=1 March 2025}}</ref> * 2014 - ''The Evening Choir: Sacred Choral Music by Carson Cooman'', Convivium Records * 2015 - ''Masque - Music for Organ by Carson Cooman'', Divine Art Records<ref name="Masque Rogers">{{cite journal |last1=Rogers |first1=Curtis |title=Reviews. Masque - Music for Organ by Carson Cooman |journal=The Organ |date=Nov 2015 - Jan 2016 |volume=94 |issue=374 |page=58 |issn=0030-4883}}</ref> * 2021 - ''As We Are Changed'' (Oratorio by Cooman and Euan Tait), Convivium Records
==Works== * 2011 - ''Carson Cooman: Organ Music Vol VI'', Wayne Leupold Editions <ref name="Matthew-Walker">{{cite journal |last1=Matthew-Walker |first1=Robert |title=Music Reviews: Carson Cooman: Organ Music Vol VII - Berceuse; Prelude and Fugue; Suite Breve; Gloucester Estampie |journal=The Organ |date=Autumn 2013 |volume=92 |issue=365 |page=53}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://carsoncooman.com Official website of Carson Cooman] *[https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/people/carson-p-cooman Memorial Church: Carson Cooman]
==See also== *M. Power, "A Minimum of Means". ''Choir and Organ'' 15 (2007), pp. 15–17.
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