David Coll (b.1980, New Jersey) is a San Francisco-based composer focusing primarily on chamber music. Through ongoing emphasis in notation, the visual, and technology, his works create situations that investigate the physical presence of performers onstage. Through this investigation, sounds, interaction, motion, all are considered as material, and the results vary between what might be considered wholly music, theatre, or some mix of the two.

David has studied at the University of Illinois, IRCAM, and the University of California-Berkeley. After recently returning from two years in Paris, his work is slowly gaining exposure in Europe with performances at festivals such as the World Music Days/Gaida Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Voix Nouvelles (Abbaye de Royaumont), as well as with collaborations with musicians such as cellist Severine Ballon, soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac, baritone Lionel Peintre, pianist Sebastian Berweck, bassist Nicolas Crosse and Ensemble Multilaterale.

David studies primarily with Edmund Campion and Erik Ulman, and has studied in masterclass settings with composers Brian Ferneyhough, Alvin Curran, Philippe Leroux, to name a few. He is active at CNMAT (center for new music and audio technologies) and is a member of Poto, an artists group in California (potoweb.org).

 

 

email: coll [at] berkeley [dot] edu