Stephen Hartke

Stephen Hartke (born 1952 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal and operatic music. He studied at Yale, at the University of Pennsylvania with George Rochberg and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and taught composition at the University of Southern California from 1987 before moving to the Oberlin Conservatory. His Meanwhile, Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Hartke was composer in residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 1988 to 1992.