Stephen Chatman is an American composer residing in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Biography

Chatman was born in Faribault, Minnesota

Faribault, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 20,818 people, 7,472 households, and 4,946 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,644.8 people per square mile . There were 7,668 housing units at an average density of 605.8 per square mile...

, and studied with Joseph R. Wood

Joseph R. Wood

Joseph Wood was an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wood attended Bucknell University from 1932-1934. Afterwords, he began his formal music training at the Juilliard Institute of Musical Arts where he received a diploma in piano performance in 1936...

 and Walter Aschaffenburg at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Ross Lee Finney

Ross Lee Finney

Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...

, Leslie Bassett

Leslie Bassett

Leslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...

, William Bolcom

William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...

, and Eugene Kurtz at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 in Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

, completing a D.M.A. degree in 1977. He also received a Fulbright

Fulbright Program

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 grant for study with Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

 at the Hochschule für Musik

Hochschule für Musik Köln

The Cologne University of Music is a music college in Cologne, and Germany's largest academy of music.-History:The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln...

 in Cologne

Cologne

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 in 1974 (Meckna 2001).

Since 1976, he has been on the faculty of the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

, in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

. where he was promoted to Professor in 1987 (Meckna 2001). He is Head of the Composition Division.

Notable students

John Burge

John Burge

John David Bryson Burge is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award , the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship , second prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival , and five...

, Arne Eigenfeldt

Arne Eigenfeldt

Arne Eigenfeldt is a Canadian composer and creator of interactive and generative music systems based in Vancouver. Both his music and his research into intelligent systems have been presented internationally. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University...

, Melissa Hui

Melissa Hui

Melissa Hui is a composer. Raised in Vancouver, Canada, Hui studied at the University of British Columbia, the California Institute of the Arts and Yale University...

, Jocelyn Morlock

Jocelyn Morlock

Jocelyn Morlock is a Canadian composer based in Vancouver. She is quickly becoming one of the most commissioned and recorded new composers in Canada.-Style:...

, Larry Nickel

Larry Nickel

Larry Nickel is a Canadian composer, conductor and singer who devotes much of his focus to choral music. He has composed for a wide spectrum of genres; electronic and computer music, string quartet, woodwind and brass quintet, Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble and choral ensembles,...

, John Oliver

John Oliver (composer)

John Oliver is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and conductor. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his music has been performed throughout North America and Europe...

, Rui Shi Zhuo

Rui Shi Zhuo

Rui Shi Zhuo is a Canadian composer of Chinese birth. He received his bachelor's degree in music from the Shanghai Conservatory in 1986; he then completed his master's degree in music at the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Keith Hamel and Stephen Chatman...

, and Jason Nett

Jason Nett

Jason Nett is a Canadian composer, producer, and guitarist born in New Westminster, British Columbia. He was the resident composer for the Vancouver Island Symphony. He also works as a producer and performs internationally....

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Sources

• MacMillan, R. 1980. "Canadian Distinctiveness Influencing Chatman Works". Music Scene, no. 313:8.
• Meckna, Michael. 2001. "Chapman, Stephen." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie
  Stanley Sadie
  Stanley Sadie CBE was a leading British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , which was published as the first edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Sadie was educated at St Paul's School,...
  
   and John Tyrrell
  John Tyrrell (professor of music)
  John Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1942. He studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno. In 2000 he was appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University....
  
  . London: Macmillan Publishers.

External links

• Biography on the composer's homepage.