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Guest Artist

David Freeman Coleman is a Boston-based
composer, educator, music director, and
speaker specializing in multiple genres of music -
Classical, Gospel, Choral, Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, and
Musical Theater - as well as leadership efforts in
DEI work at the academic and artistic institutions he works with.
Currently an Associate Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory at
Berklee, a Lecturer of Music at Tufts University, the Director of Choral
Music at the Dana Hall School, and the Minister of Music at Greater
Framingham Community Church, Coleman is sought after as a musician
and as a teacher in several different spaces which allows him to be a
bridge between diverse communities and an ambassador for the arts.

A graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts and Tufts University
he has assembled and directed choirs for Mariah Carey, Ryan Gosling,
Bobby McFerrin, Patti Labelle, and Phish. He has performed in dozens of
schools, churches, prisons, and shelters as well as Fenway Park, Carnegie
Hall, the Vatican, and the White House.
As a composer, songwriter, and producer, he has recorded 10 CD’s of his
original work, which are featured on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon. He is
the 2013 recipient of two New England Urban Music Awards and a 2020
Eliot Norton Award nominee for Outstanding Music Direction. In 2021,
he was a featured artist with the Boston Pops, both as a soloist and as
a co-host with Keith Lockhart, engaging in discussions of race, cultural
appropriation, and the significance of Jazz music. He arranged a work
celebrating Negro Spirituals for the Boston Pops and the Tanglewood
Festival Chorus, featured in their 2021 Holiday at Pops concert series.

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