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Stephen Hartke
12+ albums
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Stephen Paul Hartke (born 6 July 1952) is an American composer. He was born in Orange, New Jersey, grew up in Manhattan, where his first piano teacher was Mary Miley, and has lived in California since the 1980s. Hartke studied at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1984 to 1985, he was Fulbright Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He joined the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in 1987, and is currently distinguished professor of composition. He was composer in residence for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 1988 to 1992. Hartke has received commissions from numerous groups, including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for the new Brandenburg Project, Glimmerglass Opera (for The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif), the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Hilliard Ensemble. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997, a Charles Ives Living award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, and the Charles Ives Opera Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008. Hartke's musical influences include his teachers Leonardo Balada and George Rochberg, Stravinsky, medieval music, Tudor church music, bebop, gagaku, gamelan and other non-Western musics. Stephen Hartke lives in Glendale, California, with his wife, Lisa Stidham, and son, Sandy, and is Distinguished Professor of Composition at the
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Meanwhile: I. Procession
1762Meanwhile: III. Narration
1593Meanwhile: II. Fanfares
1584Meanwhile: IV. Spikefiddlers
1435Meanwhile: V. Cradle-songs
1286Meanwhile: VI. Celebration
1277Hartke: Netsuke "6 Movements for Violin and Piano": No. 4, Baku, the Monster that Devours Nightmares
918Hartke: Netsuke "6 Movements for Violin and Piano": No. 3, Tanuki Playing the Samisen
759Hartke: Netsuke "6 Movements for Violin and Piano": No. 6, Jewel of Widsom with Mountain Pavilions
6810Hartke: Netsuke "6 Movements for Violin and Piano": No. 1, Tengu, the Shapeshifter that Feeds on the Falsely Holy
59albums
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HARTKE: Clarinet Concerto / Rose of the Winds / Pacific Rim
Stephen Hartke: The Ascent of the Equestrian in a Balloon
Hartke: Greater Good (The)
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Hartke: Tituli / Cathedral In The Thrashing Rain
Hartke, S.: Horse With the Lavender Eye (The) / Post-Modern Homages / Piano Sonata / the King of the Sun
Tituli/Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain
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The Arrival of Night
Tituli / Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain
The Horse with the Lavender Eye
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Stephen Hartke: Sons of Noah
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Sonic Scenery: Music for Collections