Coleman Zurkowski is a classically trained composer and musician based in New York. Zurkowski studied composition at DePaul University in Chicago, IL with Kurt Westerberg from 2008 to 2012. He continued his studies at the California Institute of the Arts from 2012 to 2014 with Michael Pisaro and Wolfgang von Schweinitz. In 2015, he was chosen to be a resident composer for the Syros Sound Meetings in association with the Syros International Film Festival in Syros, Greece. In 2017, he self-organized an international tour of his album ZERO, which was later released by Dangerbird Records in Los Angeles in 2018. In 2019, he released his follow up album INSTRUMENTAL with a US tour through New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, and Miami. In 2022, Zurkowski released Music for No One which was toured internationally featuring performances in Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Minneapolis.  Zurkowski has lectured as a visiting artist at Dartmouth College, the School of Visual Arts, the California Institute of the Arts, Northeastern Illinois University, and DePaul University.  Zurkowski also composes music for film, television, commercials, podcasts, and theatre.  For samples continue here