Michael Kooman

Michael Kooman is a composer, pianist and arranger living in New York City. He is most known for his work on the musicals "Homemade Fusion", "Dani Girl" and "Golden Gate" with Christopher Dimond. He is half of the writing team of Kooman and Dimond.

Musicals

He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 where he met collaborator, Dimond. Their first collaboration was "Homemade Fusion" in March 2006. Since the premiere, "Homemade Fusion" has been performed across the country including the Civic Light Opera Cabaret Space, The Zipper Theater, and The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts. In 2007, their musical "Dani Girl" premiered in the Carnegie Mellon drama department, and quickly went on to workshops at the American Conservatory Theater, The ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, The Kennedy Center, and CAP-21 among others.

"Golden Gate" was commissioned by the Williamstown Theatre Festival and premiered August 12, 2009.

"Homemade Fusion" has been performed in numerous cities across the United States by college and professional theaters. It's premiere was at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, with a subsequent production at the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret Theater. This production featured Patina Miller, Anderson Davis, Andrew Kober, and many other Carnegie Mellon Drama School Alumni. In 2010, the show was performed at the Ambassadors theater in London, produced by Christopher Clegg. In 2011, the show will be produced in Edinburgh, Scotland.

"Junior Claus" is a family friendly Christmas Musical that premiered in December 2009 in Minneapolis, MN.

Orchestral Music

In 2008, he was commissioned by the Altoona Symphony Orchestra to compose a piece for their 80th anniversary celebration.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Along with Christopher Dimond, he received the 2010 Jonathan Larson Award. In 2009, he received the Burton Lane Award from the American Theatre Hall of Fame, and received a fellowship from the Dramatists Guild of America.^{[citation needed]}

He is currently a member of the advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop

References

Additional Sources

• http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=KOOMANMCHL
• http://koomandimond.com/biography.html

External links

• http://koomandimond.com/

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