Michael Coleman has participated as composer/pianist in numerous new music programs and festivals in the U.S and Russia and has also had works performed in France, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. He has premiered a number of his own piano works along with those by Merab Gagnidze, Jerry Sieg, and Sergei Zhukov. He has also written works for chamber ensembles, voice, and orchestra and as part of the duo Tone Twister, he and tubist Tim Jackson have performed a variety of original and new works for tuba and piano. Coleman received his doctorate from the University of Maryland and degrees from the University of New Orleans and the University of South Alabama, studying with Lawrence Moss, Jerry Sieg, and Carl Alette, respectively.

Dr. Coleman was an artist fellowship grant recipient from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1994 and his Two Bagatelles were part of a recent CD release by pianist Jeri-Mae Astolfi through Capstone Records. He teaches at Pensacola Junior College and the University of West Florida and is the organist/music director at Zion Lutheran Church in Silverhill, Alabama.