Dr Donna Coleman

Head of Department
Keyboard

"Spirit, Passion, and the Right Hands"
Peter Cossè, Fono Forum (Berlin, 1990)

The recipient of numerous international prizes and fellowships, American-born pianist Donna Coleman is recognised as one of the most preeminent interpreters of the music of the Twentieth Centuries.

Her recordings for Etcetera Records of the piano music of Charles Ives have received awards and accolades from around the world, including a Diapason d’Or from France’s Diapason magazine, and her compact disc on ABC Classics, Rags to Riches: A Syncopated Century, was the Editor’s Choice in Soundscapes magazine upon release.

Concert tours featuring her eclectic repertory ranging from Domenico Scarlatti and Robert Schumann to Scott Joplin and Bill Evans to compositions written yesterday have transported audiences through out the United States of America and in Canada, Europe and Australia.

Donna has also been affiliated with La Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi Musicali in Cento, Italy, where she gave a five-week course of masterclasses in 2003.

Her musical versatility and unique insights into ways to avoid playing-related injury attract and inspire the talents of rising stars in both the repertoire and improvisation streams at the VCA.